Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	duke_n	earl_n	palatine_n	3,317	5	13.5289	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74083	Funerall elegies. Or The sad muses in sables, singing the Epicediums of his Highness Prince Maurice, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, &c. James Duke of Lenox and Richmond. Iohn Earl of Rivers. Iohn Cleveland, the much-cry'd up poet. / Written by S.H.	S. H.	1655 (1655)	Wing H117; Thomason E838_9; ESTC R207434	3,003	8

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