Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	good_a	know_v	see_v	1,978	5	3.1860	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08630	The heroycall epistles of the learned poet Publius Ouidius Naso, in English verse set out and translated by George Turberuile ... ; with Aulus Sabinus aunsweres to certaine of the same.; Heroides. English. 1567	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?; Sabinus, Angelus, 15th cent.	1567 (1567)	STC 18940; ESTC S478964	103,645	347

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