Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	earl_n	horse_n	lord_n	2,848	4	4.2512	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16131	The morall philosophie of Doni drawne out of the auncient writers. A worke first compiled in the Indian tongue, and afterwardes reduced into diuers other languages: and now lastly englished out of Italian by Thomas North, brother to the right Honorable Sir Roger North Knight, Lorde North of Kyrtheling.; Fables of Bidpai. English.	Doni, Anton Francesco, 1513-1574. Moral filosophia.; Bı̄dpāı̄.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?	1570 (1570)	STC 3053; ESTC S104622	91,288	193

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