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	good_a	sir_n	778	5	5.6463	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15830	The cold yeare. 1614 A deepe snovv: in vvhich men and cattell haue perished, to the generall losse of farmers, grasiers, husbandmen, and all sorts of people in the countrie; and no lesse hurtfull to citizens. Written dialogue-wise, in a plaine familiar talke betweene a London shop-keeper, and a North-Country-man. In which, the reader shall finde many thinges for his profit.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1615 (1615)	STC 26091; ESTC S120329	13,942	26

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