Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	good_a	grace_n	work_n	6,634	5	5.8053	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03137	An elegy humbly offered to the memory of the Reverend Father in God Doctor Humphry Henchman, late Bishop of London, who departed this life the 8th of October 1675.		1675 (1675)	Wing E347; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[60]; ESTC R36152	976	1

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