Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	believe_v	great_a	know_v	1,037	5	3.2408	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62957	The innocent epicure, or, The art of angling a poem.; Innocent epicure	J. S., fl. 1697.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1697 (1697)	Wing T191; ESTC R1126	21,516	82

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