Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	day_n	let_v	lord_n	11,954	5	4.6424	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19443	A spirituall song conteining an historicall discourse from the infancie of the world, vntill this present time: setting downe the treacherous practises of the wicked, against the children of God: describing also the markes and ouerthrow of antichrist, with a thankesgiuing to God for the preseruation of her Maiestie, and of his Church. Drawen out of the holy Scriptures, by Roger Cotton.	Cotton, Roger.	1596 (1596)	STC 5869; ESTC S116424	11,575	28

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