Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	write_a	write_v	year_n	50	3	3.9204	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78477	Certaine observations on that letter written to the two Houses from the Army. Dated at Reading the 8th. of Iuly, 1647. Written for the satisfaction of a private friend, and may serve for the whole kingdome. Whereunto is added the letter upon which these observations were made.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. Two letters from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax.	1647 (1647)	Wing C1712; Thomason E398_10; ESTC R201687	5,470	8

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