Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	sir_n	thomas_n	william_n	3,993	5	9.5465	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96134	A continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia wherein is handled the loves of Amphialus and Helena Queen of Corinth, Prince Plangus and Erona. With the historie of the loves of old Claius and young Strephon to Urania. Written by a young gentlewoman, Meis A.W.	Weamys, Anna, b. ca. 1630.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.	1651 (1651)	Wing W1189; Thomason E1288_2; ESTC R208978	60,679	228

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