Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	woe_n	word_n	work_v	11	3	5.6716	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12458	A plaine and familiar exposition of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon / by Iohn Dod and Robert Cleaver.	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.	1610 (1610)	STC 6965; ESTC S109745	131,853	182

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