Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	beauty_n	fair_a	heart_n	2,675	5	4.6260	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69453	Sylvia's complaint of her sexes unhappiness a poem : being the second part of Sylvia's revenge, or, A satyr against man.	Ames, Richard, d. 1693.; Gould, Robert, d. 1709?	1692 (1692)	Wing A2992A; ESTC R22276	9,279	30

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