Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	heart_n	lord_n	way_n	4,954	5	4.7237	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88032	A letter to General Monk, expressing the sense of many thousands of the well affected people of England. Old Parliamenters, and old Puritanes To the magnanimous and truly excellent Generall Monk.	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1704; Thomason 669.f.23[25]; ESTC R211522	5,445	1

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