Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	age_a	young_a	youth_n	31	3	8.7714	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08677	Publ [sic] Ovid. De tristibus: or Mour nefull [sic] elegies in five bookes: composed in his banishment, part at sea, and part at Tomos, a city of Pontus. Translated into English verse by Zachary Catlin, Mr. of Arts. Suffolke.; Tristia. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Catlin, Zachary.	1639 (1639)	STC 18981; ESTC S113670	64,573	102

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