Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	able_a	great_a	king_n	2,779	5	3.5467	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43462	A sermon preached in His Majesty's Chapel-Royal at White-Hall, upon the 26th day of July 1685 being the day of publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for His Majesty's late victory over the rebels / by Henry Hesketh ...	Hesketh, Henry, 1637?-1710.	1685 (1685)	Wing H1620; ESTC R12028	12,660	32

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