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	king_n	send_v	1,066	5	5.3865	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29659	The remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke being poems of monarchy and religion : never before printed.	Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.	1670 (1670)	Wing B4900; ESTC R350	71,163	212

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