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	father_n	great_a	1,164	5	3.0841	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60174	Virtue and science pindarick poems dedicated to the Most Illustrious Princess Anne, Dutchess of Richmond and Lenox, and to her sister, the Right Honourable Frances, Countess of Newburgh / by J.S.	J. S. (James Shute), 1664-1688.	1695 (1695)	Wing S3713B; ESTC R26919	14,321	24

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