Selected quad for the lemma: king_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	edward_n	henry_n	queen_n	21,575	5	7.0639	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39782	A Discourse concerning militia's and standing armies with relation to the past and present governments of Europe and of England in particular.	Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.	1697 (1697)	Wing F1294; ESTC R5238	13,616	32

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