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	know_v	time_n	861	5	3.4703	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96309	The copy of a letter from Master Tristram Whitecombe, Major of Kingsale, in Ireland. Dated the 21. of April 1642. To his brother Benjamin Whitecombe, merchant in London. Alderman Plurie of Glocester mooved the house that this letter might bee printed, whereupon it was ordered the 26. of April, to be published. It is this day ordered by the House of Commons, that the ministers of each several parish give publike thanks to God for the good successe it hath pleased him to grant the English against the Rebels. Hen. Elsing, Cler. Com. D. Parl.	Whetcombe, Tristram.	1642 (1642)	Wing W1636; Thomason E145_2; ESTC R19793	6,316	10

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