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	hand_n	lord_n	815	5	3.2953	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09799	Three [morall] treatises no lesse pleasau[nt] than necessary for all men to read[e,] wherof the one is called the learned prince, the other the fruites of foes, the thyrde the porte of rest.; Moralia. Selections. English	Plutarch.; Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1561 (1561)	STC 20063.5; ESTC S110436	42,324	138

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