Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	duke_n	earl_n	elder_a	21,969	5	10.7850	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06684	A health to the gentlemanly profession of seruingmen; or, The seruingmans comforts With other thinges not impertinent to the premisses, as well pleasant as profitable to the courteous reader.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name.; I. M., fl. 1598.	1598 (1598)	STC 17140; ESTC S120831	45,157	78

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