Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	better_a	death_n	life_n	924	5	4.5184	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03082	The gouernement of all estates, wherein is contayned the perfect way to an honest life gathered out of many learned authors, a boke right profitable for all estates, but especiallie for the trayning [and] bringing vp of the yonger sort: written in Latin by that excellent learned man Andreus Hesse, translated into Englishe.	Schottennius, Hermannus.; Baarland, Adriaan van, 1486-1538. aut; Bourman, Nicholas.; Hermann IV, Landgrave of Hesse and Archbishop of Cologne, d. 1508, attributed name. aut	1566 (1566)	STC 13207; ESTC S116007	59,116	260

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