Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	slay_v	2,803	5	8.3370	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15530	The arte of rhetorique for the vse of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English, by Thomas Wilson.	Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Matrimonii encomium. English.	1553 (1553)	STC 25799; ESTC S111753	195,532	268

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