Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	henry_n	john_n	king_n	2,844	4	3.5814	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68089	Circes of Iohn Baptista Gello, Florentine. Translated out of Italion into Englishe by Henry Iden; Circe. English	Gelli, Giovanni Battista, 1498-1563.; Iden, Henry.	1558 (1558)	STC 11709; ESTC S105721	94,731	254

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