Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	let_v	lord_n	3,921	5	3.8283	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68702	The first and best part of Scoggins iests full of witty mirth and pelasant shifts, done by him in France, and other places: being a preseruatiue against melancholy. Gathered by Andrew Boord, Doctor of Physicke.; Scoggin's jests. Part 1.	Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.; Scogan, John, fl. 1480.	1626 (1626)	STC 21850.7; ESTC S101656	50,122	100

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