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	life_n	lord_n	1,247	5	3.5128	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29660	The tragedy of that famous Roman oratour Marcus Tullius Cicero	Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4902; ESTC R23005	49,216	38

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