Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	kingdom_n	people_n	18,543	5	5.1521	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77545	Britannia, passionately and historically, remembring her misery and happinesse in former ages, and declaring her calamities, and expectations now.		1644 (1644)	Wing B4816; Thomason E29_8; ESTC R3422	7,896	8

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