Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	woman_n	wonder_v	young_a	23	3	5.8166	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16678	The shepheards tales	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1621 (1621)	STC 3584; ESTC S104661	20,701	52

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