Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	brother_n	king_n	time_n	896	5	3.2955	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93674	Englands warning-peece or the history of the gun-powder treason: inlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published. Whereunto is annexed The Act of Parliament for publick thanksgiving upon the fifth day of November yearly. / By T.S.	Spencer, Thomas, fl. 1658.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4961; Thomason E2255_2; ESTC R210140	32,617	87

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