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	knight_n	sir_n	7,138	5	6.9622	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51922	The memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first wife to Henry the fourth, King of France and Navarre compiled in French by her owne most delicate and royall hand : and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...; Memoires de la roine Margverite. English	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing M595; ESTC R15539	98,790	238

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