Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	according_a	people_n	power_n	4,952	5	4.8373	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87933	A letter from a person in the countrey to his friend in the city: giving his judgement upon a book entituled A healing question.	Person in the countrey.	1656 (1656)	Wing L1420; Thomason E885_8; ESTC R202810	21,671	24

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