Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	devil_n	faith_n	2,565	5	5.9598	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93579	Fearefull newes from Coventry, or, A true relation and lamentable story of one Thomas Holt of Coventry a musitian: who through covetousnesse and immoderate love of money, sold himselfe to the devill, with whom he had made a contract for certaine yeares. And also of his most lamentable end and death, on the 16, day of February. 1641. To the terror and amazement of the inhabitants thereabouts. writen [sic] by Lawrence Southerne of Coventrey.	Southerne, Lawrence.	1642 (1642)	Wing S4753; Thomason E146_3; ESTC R19040	4,072	9

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