Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	bear_v	good_a	time_n	952	5	3.2505	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57985	The high and mightie commendation of the vertue of a pot of good ale full of wit without offence, of mirth without obscenities of pleasure without scurrilitie, and of good content without distaste : whereunto is added the valiant battell fought between the Norfolk Cock and the Wisbich Cock / written by Thomas Randall.	Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Wild, Robert, 1609-1679. Valiant battell fought between the Norfolk Cock and the Wisbich Cock.	1642 (1642)	Wing R239A; ESTC R20718	4,620	10

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