Selected quad for the lemma: king_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	earl_n	great_a	lord_n	27,730	5	3.6766	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10702	Roome for a gentleman, or The second part of faultes collected and gathered for the true meridian of Dublin in Ireland, and may serue fitly else where about London, and in many other partes of England. By Barnabe Rych souldier.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1609 (1609)	STC 20985; ESTC S115899	39,214	69

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