Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	begin_v	great_a	king_n	989	5	3.5447	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75318	An ancient and true prophesie of all those transactions that have already happened: also what is to come: of the event of the great actions in being: what government we are to expect. In which is contained, excellent cautions to the sonnes of men. Written in verse, in the latter end of the raign of Queen Elizabeth, and found in Sir Robert Cotton's library.		1659 (1659)	Wing A3067; Thomason E993_23; ESTC R207786	4,312	8

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