Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	worship_n	worshipful_a	worthy_a	15	3	5.3453	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09809	The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octauius Cæsar Augustus: collected out of good authors. Also the liues of nine excellent chieftaines of warre, taken out of Latine from Emylius Probus, by S.G. S. By whom also are added the liues of Plutarch and of Seneca: gathered together, disposed, and enriched as the others. And now translated into English by Sir Thomas North Knight	Nepos, Cornelius. Vitae excellentium imperatorum. English. Selections.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?	1602 (1602)	STC 20071; ESTC S111836	1,193,680	142

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manner_n enrage_v their_o unruly_a lust_n and_o teach_v they_o to_o commit_v adulteri●●_n while_o they_o behold_v they_o act_v whereupon_o he_o peremptory_o conclude_v that_o all_o stageplay_n be_v whole_o to_o be_v abandon_v that_o so_o not_o only_a no_o vice_n may_v harbour_v in_o our_o breast_n but_o that_o the_o custom_n of_o no_o pleasure_n may_v ever_o overcome_v we_o and_o so_o turn_v we_o away_o from_o god_n and_o from_o good_a work_n hence_o gregory_n nazianzen_n aver_v ibidem_fw-la th●t_a stageplay_n ought_v to_o be_v repute_v nothing_o else_o but_o the_o very_a plague_n and_o sickness_n of_o man_n mind_n the_o several_a ill_a effect_n of_o which_o he_o there_o reckon_v up_o at_o large_a and_o thereupon_o he_o thus_o conclude_v wherefore_o it_o evident_o appear_v that_o these_o stageplay_n be_v nought_o else_o but_o th●_n very_a destruction_n of_o man_n soul_n which_o censure_n of_o he_o be_v full_o ratify_v by_o the_o concurrent_a suffrage_n of_o 4._o tatianus_n oratio_fw-la advers._fw-la graeco_n bibl._n patrum_fw-la tom._n 2._o pag._n 180.181_o of_o theophilus_n antiochenus_fw-la ad_fw-la autolichum_n lib._n 3._o ibidem_fw-la pag._n 170._o g._n h._n of_o minucius_n felix_n octavius_n pag._n 101.121_o of_o arnobius_n advers._fw-la gentes_fw-la lib._n 4._o pag._n 149.150_o 151._o &_o lib._n 7._o pag._n 230._o to_o 242._o of_o basil._n h●xaëmeron_n hom._n 4._o tom._n 1._o pag._n 45._o &_o de_fw-fr legendis_fw-la libris_fw-la gentilium_fw-la oratio_fw-la pag._n 308.312_o of_o s._n asterius_n in_o festum_fw-la kalendarum_fw-la hom._n bibl._n patrum_fw-la tom._n 4_o pag._n 706._o of_o gaudentius_n