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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	fruit_n	good_a	tree_n	40,951	5	10.1631	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17079	The vertuous daughter A sermon preached at Saint Maries in Warwicke, at the funerall of the most vertuous and truely religious young gentlewoman, Mistresse Cicely Puckering, daughter and co-heire to the right worshipfull, Sir Thomas Puckering, knight and baronet, the fourteenth day of Aprill, 1636. By Iohn Bryan, parson of Barford.	Bryan, John, d. 1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 3955; ESTC S114258	15,760	30

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it_o be_v safe_a and_o less_o subject_a to_o exception_n and_o danger_n to_o praise_v the_o dead_a and_o more_o profitable_a for_o two_o reason_n ibid._n nec_fw-la laudantem_fw-la adulatio_fw-la movet_fw-la nec_fw-la audatum_fw-la elatio_fw-la tentat_fw-la in_o nat_n s._n euseb_n lauda_fw-la navigantis_fw-la felicitatem_fw-la sed_fw-la eum_fw-la pervenerit_fw-la ad_fw-la po●tum_fw-la lauda_fw-la du●is_fw-la virtutem_fw-la sed_fw-la cum_fw-la perductus_fw-la est_fw-la ad_fw-la triumphum_fw-la id_fw-la ibid._n ambrose_n give_v they_o because_o then_o say_v he_o flattery_n will_v not_o move_v the_o praiser_n nor_o vainglory_n tempt_v the_o praise_v therefore_o ecclesiasticus_fw-la advise_v we_o to_o judge_v none_o bless_v before_o their_o death_n we_o may_v best_o commend_v the_o sailor_n happiness_n when_o he_o be_v arrive_v at_o the_o haven_n and_o the_o soldier_n valour_n when_o he_o have_v win_v the_o field_n