Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	young_a	youth_n	zeal_n	19	3	7.4067	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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provincial_n council_n of_o me●●z_n anno_fw-la dom._n 1549._o cap._n 61._o lib._n 6._o capit._fw-la caroli_n magni_fw-la apud_fw-la bochelium_fw-la decr●ta_fw-la eccles._n gal._n lib._n 4._o tit._n 10._o cap._n 6._o justinian_n codic_n l._n 3._o tit._n 12._o de_fw-fr ferijs_fw-la lex_fw-la 10._o de_fw-fr fest._n ignatius_n ep._n 6._o ad_fw-la magnesianos_fw-la clemens_n romanus_n apost_n constit._fw-la l._n 2._o c._n 64.65_o clemens_n alexandrinus_n paedagogi_fw-la lib._n 3._o cap._n 11._o augustine_n enarrat_fw-la in_o psal._n 32._o cyrillus_n alexandrinus_n in_o joannis_n evangelium_fw-la l._n 8._o c._n 5._o p._n 595._o s._n asterius_n in_o festum_fw-la kalendarum_fw-la oratio_fw-la bibl._n patrum_fw-la tom._n 4._o p._n 705.706_o salvian_n de_fw-fr gubernation_n dei_fw-la lib._n 6._o p._n 195.196_o leo._n 1._o sermo_n in_o octava_fw-la petri_n &_o pauli_n cap._n 5._o fol._n 165._o eusebius_n apud_fw-la damascenum●_n parallelorum_fw-la l._n 3_o c._n 47._o agrippa_z de_fw-fr vanitate_fw-la scient●arum_fw-la c._n 59_o de_fw-fr festis_fw-la polidor_n virgil_n de_fw-fr inventoribus_fw-la rerum_fw-la l._n 5._o c._n 2._o pag._n 385.386_o episcopus_fw-la chemnensis_fw-la o●us_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la c._n 28._o sect_n