Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	only_a	son_n	world_n	4,777	5	4.8266	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23680	An Abridgment of the prerogatives of St. Ann, mother of the mother of God with the approbation of the doctors at Paris, and thence done into English to accompany The contemplations on the life and glory of Holy Mary, and the defence of the same, with some pieces of a like nature : to which a preface is added concerning the original of the story.	Cross, John, 1630-1689. Contemplations on the life and glory of Holy Mary the mother of Jesus.; Clagett, William, 1646-1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing A108; ESTC R6614	31,825	46

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