Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	affection_n	mind_n	word_n	2,747	5	3.8228	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19802	True and Christian friendshippe With all the braunches, members, parts, and circumstances thereof, Godly and learnedly described. Written first in Latine by that excellent and learned man, Lambertus Danæus, and now turned into English. Together also with a right excellent inuectiue of the same author, against the wicked exercise of diceplay, and other prophane gaming.; Tractatus de amicitia Christiana. English	Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1586 (1586)	STC 6230; ESTC S114067	45,848	120

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