Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	meet_v	young_a	youth_n	23	3	7.3630	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66814	The witty jests and mad pranks of John Frith commonly called, the merry-conceited-mason, brother and fellow-traveller : with Captain James Hinde the famous high-way-man.	Frith, John.	1673 (1673)	Wing W3239A; ESTC R14984	8,796	24

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