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	enemy_n	good_a	892	5	3.1221	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43443	Poor Robin's visions wherein is described the present humours of the times, the vices and fashionable fopperies thereof, and after what manner men are punished for them hereafter : discovered in a dream.	Poor Robin.; Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674.; Winstanley, Robert, b. 1647?; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing H1598; ESTC R1859	42,525	135

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