Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	best_a	think_v	time_n	758	5	3.2156	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15124	A werke for housholders or for them ye haue the gydynge or gouernaunce of any company. Gadred [and] set forth by a professed brother of Syon Richard Whytforde. And newly corrected [and] prynted agayne w[ith] an addicion of policy for housholdynge, set forth also by the same brother.	Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?; Bernard Silvestris, fl. 1136. Epistola .. de bona gubernatonne familie.	1530 (1530)	STC 25422; ESTC S105123	38,157	64

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