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	king_n	people_n	13,375	5	4.9419	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33415	The Clergy's late carriage to the King considered in a letter to a friend, allowed to be published this 2d day of July, 1688.		1688 (1688)	Wing C4647; ESTC R37728	3,427	2

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