Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	accompany_v	captain_n	john_n	269	4	6.1194	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37432	Sir Francis Drake revived who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts : being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies ... / collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake, Mastet [sic] Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers, and notes of divers other gentlemen (who went on the said voyages) carefully compared together.	Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637. World encompassed by Sir Francis Drake.; Nichols, Philip.; Fletcher, Francis, 16th cent.; Bigges, Walter, d. 1586.; R. D.	1653 (1653)	Wing D84; Wing W3586; ESTC R1410	171,639	266

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