Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	act_v	friend_n	great_a	80	3	2.1564	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85339	Good and ioyfull nevves out of Buckinghamshire, being an exact and true relation of a battell, stricken betwixt Prince Robert and Sir William Balfore; lievtenant generall to his Excellency, the Earle of Essex, neer Alisbury in that county on Tuesday last, the first of November, wherein the said Sir William obtain'd a happy and glorious victory.		1642 (1642)	Wing G1035; Thomason E126_9; ESTC R20013	3,470	9

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