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	lord_n	power_n	14,769	5	5.2297	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63511	A true discoverie of the ground of the imprisonment of Francis Ellington, Thomas Cocket, and Edward Ferman whose outward dwellings is in Northamptonshire, who are cast into the common goale in Northampton by the men that are now in commission to do justice, who never read us any law, or any evidence came against us, shewing our transgression as the following lines make manifest : he that hath an eye to see, let him see, and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear.	F. E. (Francis Ellington)	1655 (1655)	Wing T2683; ESTC R37161	8,402	13

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