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
A91163	Accommodation cordially desired, and really intended. A moderate discourse: tending, to the satisfaction of all such, who do either wilfully, or ignorantly conceive that the Parliament is disaffected to peace. Written upon occasion of a late pamphlet, pretended to be printed at Oxford; entituled a Reply to the answer of the London-Petition for peace.; Contra-replicant, his complaint to His Majestie.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing P392A; Thomason E101_23; ESTC R21031	28,922	35

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