Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	army_n	great_a	king_n	1,878	5	3.7398	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50889	A narrative of the causes and events of civil-war between princes and people together with the manner how the people of Rome and of the Netherlands rejected and abjured their king and kingly government, with the form of their oaths of abjuration : extracted out of the Roman and Netherlands history : as likewise some objections now in contest concerning the taking of the like oath in this Common-Wealth examined and answered, if not for satisfaction at least for information of such as are concerned / by F.M.	F. M.	1659 (1659)	Wing M21; ESTC R3469	13,630	21

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