Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	ask_v	know_v	sir_n	1,035	5	5.9968	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75953	The Phrygian fabulist or, The fables of Æsop: extracted from the Latine copie, and moraliz'd. By Leonard Willan Gent.; Aesop's fables. English	Willan, Leonard.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1649 (1649)	Wing A732; Thomason E1371_1; ESTC R177	74,993	215

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