Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68089	Circes of Iohn Baptista Gello, Florentine. Translated out of Italion into Englishe by Henry Iden; Circe. English	Gelli, Giovanni Battista, 1498-1563.; Iden, Henry.	1558 (1558)	STC 11709; ESTC S105721	94,731	254

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