Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	work_n	write_v	yield_v	18	3	6.4992	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18040	The ruinous fal of prodigalitie with the notable examples of the best aprooued aucthours which hath bin written of the same. Newly set foorth by Iohn Carr.	Carr, John, citezein of London.	1573 (1573)	STC 4685; ESTC S111212	14,075	46

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