Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	earl_n	king_n	warwick_n	1,058	5	11.5865	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79846	A full ansvver to an infamous and trayterous pamphlet, entituled, A declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, expressing their reasons and grounds of passing the late resolutions touching no further addresse or application to be made to the King.	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.	1648 (1648)	Wing C4423; Thomason E455_5; ESTC R205012	109,150	177

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