Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	england_n	king_n	wales_n	9,030	5	10.3396	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76741	The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things; by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon Viscount St Alban.; In felicem memoriam Elizabethae. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1651 (1651)	Wing B297; Thomason E1398_2; ESTC R17340	39,913	194

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