Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	word_n	world_n	write_v	276	4	5.0580	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22462	The copie of a double letter sent by an English gentilman from beyond the seas, to his frende in London containing the true aduises of the cause, and maner of the death, of one Richard Atkins, executed by fire in Rome, the seconde of August 1581.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1581 (1581)	STC 888; ESTC S112708	11,224	24

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