Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	let_v	lord_n	prayer_n	9,235	5	6.5766	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20408	Greene in conceipt New raised from his graue to write the tragique historie of faire Valeria of London. Wherein is truly discouered the rare and lamentable issue of a husbands dotage, a wiues leudnesse, & children of disobedience. Receiued and reported by I.D.	Dickenson, John, romance writer.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1598 (1598)	STC 6819; ESTC S105352	46,384	71

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