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	time_n	955	5	3.4241	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45771	Ireland's lamentation being a short, but perfect, full and true account of the scituation [sic], nature, constitution and product of Ireland : with an impartial historical relation of the most material transactions, revolutions, and miserable sufferings of the Protestants there, from the death of King Charles the second, to the latter end of April, 1689 : the time and manner of the late King's landing there : what men, monies, shipping, arms and ammunition he brought with him : the manner of his going up and into Dublin : his kneeling to the host : displacing all Protestants : the strength and defeat of his Army, and what else is of note : to which is added, a letter from a lieutenant in the Irish army, dated at Dublin, May 7. with an account of affairs to that time / written by an English Protestant that lately narrowly escaped with his life from thence.	English Protestant that lately narrowly escaped with his life from thence.; Fz. Ws., B.	1689 (1689)	Wing I1025; ESTC R10004	25,579	39

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