Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	edward_n	john_n	knight_n	15,942	5	7.8506	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25223	Templum musicum, or, The musical synopsis of the learned and famous Johannes-Henricus-Alstedius being a compendium of the rudiments both of the mathematical and practical part of musick, of which subject not any book is extant in our English tongue / faithfully translated out of Latin by John Birchensha ...; Elementale mathematicum. VI, Musica. English	Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.; Birchensha, John, fl. 1664-1672.	1664 (1664)	Wing A2926; ESTC R1493	38,025	106

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