Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	england_n	john_n	sir_n	22,024	5	6.0121	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55424	Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.	Pope, Walter, d. 1714.	1698 (1698)	Wing P2913; ESTC R8618	41,820	128

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