Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	let_v	see_v	5,984	5	3.0591	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73334	The excellent historye of Theseus and Ariadne Wherein is declared her feruent loue to hym: and his trayterous dealynge towarde her: written in English meeter in co[n]mendacion of all good women: and to the infamie of suche lyght huswyues as Phedia the sister of Ariadne was: which fled away w[ith] Theseus her sisters husbande: as is declared in this history. By Thomas Vnderdowne.	Underdown, Thomas.	1566 (1566)	STC 24517; ESTC S124908	10,262	35

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