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	love_n	love_v	889	5	5.9408	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16257	Thirtene most plesant and delectable questions, entituled a disport of diuers noble personages written in Italian by M. Iohn Bocace, Florentine and poet laureate, in his booke named Philocopo. Englished by H.G. These bookes are to be solde at the corner shoppe, at the northweast dore of Paules; Filocolo. English	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Gifford, Humphrey.; Grantham, Henry, fl. 1571-1587.	1571 (1571)	STC 3181; ESTC S109327	66,026	176

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