Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	bring_v	day_n	time_n	1,187	5	3.1555	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20499	A discourse of the married and single life Wherein, by discovering the misery of the one, is plainely declared the felicity of the other.	Jardin, Roland du.	1621 (1621)	STC 6908; ESTC S116956	23,002	130

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