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	find_v	see_v	938	5	2.6919	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84271	An excellent ballad of George Barnwel an apprentice of London, who was undone by a strumpet, who having thrice robbed his master, and murdered his uncle in Ludlow. The tune is, The merchant.		1658-1664 (1664)	Wing E3788E; ESTC R231235	4,542	2

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