Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	charles_n	king_n	lewis_n	2,714	5	10.2681	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01624	The course of Christianitie: or, As touching the dayly reading and meditation of the holy Scriptures very requisite and necessary for all Christians of what estate or condition soeuer: tvvo bookes. Translated out of Latine into English, by Iohn Ludham vicar of Wethersfeld. 1579.; De sacrae Scripturae lectione as meditatione quotidiana. English	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Ludham, John, d. 1613.	1579 (1579)	STC 11755; ESTC S120317	159,740	250

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