Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	5,884	5	5.3540	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68870	The phœnix of these late times: or the life of Mr. Henry Welby, Esq . who lived at his house in Grub-street forty foure yeares, and in that space, was never seene by any, aged 84. Shewing the first occasion, and the reasons thereof. Whose portracture, you may behold, as it was taken at his death. With epitaphs and elegies of the late deceased gentleman, who lyeth buried in S. Giles Church neere Criple gate, London.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1637 (1637)	STC 25226.5; ESTC S103493	14,021	52

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