Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	answer_v	good_a	time_n	779	5	3.3369	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20416	hEre endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophres enprynted. by me william Caxton at westmestre the yere of our lord .M.CCCC.Lxx vij. Whiche book is late translated out of Frenshe into englyssh. by the noble and puissant lord Lord Antone Erle of Ryuyers lord of Scales ...; Dictes and sayings of the philosophers.	Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʼ, 11th cent. Mukhtār al-ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim.; Rivers, Anthony Woodville, Earl, 1442?-1483.; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.	1480 (1480)	STC 6828; ESTC S106576	95,995	158

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show_v you_o now_o dye_v ng_z than_o i_o have_v do_v afore_o in_o my_o lyf_v the_o say_v inclites_n sai_fw-fr de_fw-fr sir_n comaunde_v i_o what_o thing_n you_o wil._n he_o answer_v no_o thing_n and_o lift_v up_o his_o eye_n to_o the_o sky_n sing_v i_o present_v my_o soul_n to_o the_o maker_n of_o alle_fw-mi the_o world_n and_o so_o die_v ¶_o the_o say_a socrates'_v have_v xij_o m._n disciple_n and_o disciple_n of_o his_o disciple_n ¶_o and_o in_o he_o lyf_v he_o devyse_v that_o man_n shall_v be_v guide_v after_o three_o ordre_n that_o be_v to_o say_v in_o clergy_n in_o knyghthode_n &_o