Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	line_n	page_n	read_v	4,280	5	9.9304	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44428	The history of love a poem in a letter to a lady / by Mr. Charles Hopkins.	Hopkins, Charles, 1664?-1700?; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. English. Selections. 1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2724; ESTC R36004	30,155	146

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