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	great_a	house_n	771	5	4.7797	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18296	The table of Cebes the philosopher. How one may take profite of his enemies, translated out of Plutarche. A treatise perswadyng a man paciently to suffer the death of his freend; Pinax. English.	Plutarch. De capienda ex inimicis utilitate. aut; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. De morte declamatio. aut; Poyntz, Francis, Sir, d. 1528.; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546, attributed name.; Cebes, of Thebes, attributed name.	1545 (1545)	STC 4891; ESTC S109138	35,783	158

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