Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	pay_v	rent_n	tenant_n	2,576	5	9.7256	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65528	A discours of husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders shewing the wonderfull improvement of land there; and serving as a pattern for our practice in this Common-wealth.	Weston, Richard, Sir, 1591-1652.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing W1482A; ESTC R206516	16,676	37

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