Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	call_v	death_n	life_n	1,263	5	4.2305	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57145	Ovid travestie, a burlesque upon Ovid's Epistles by Alexander Radcliffe ...	Radcliffe, Alexander, fl. 1669-1696.	1681 (1681)	Wing R126; ESTC R10447	39,538	138

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