Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	mind_n	young_a	youth_n	65	3	7.8443	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62264	Ornitho-logie, or, The speech of birds also, The speech of flovvers, partly moral, partly mystical / by T. Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1662 (1662)	Wing S78_VARIANT; ESTC R33896	29,965	155

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