Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	death_n	great_a	lord_n	4,859	5	3.8144	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27117	The wall-flower as it grew out of the stone-chamber belonging to the metropolitan prison of London called Newgate : being a history which is partly true, partly romantick, morally divine : whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by divinity / written by Thomas Bayly ... whilst he was prisoner there.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1679 (1679)	Wing B1516; ESTC R33152	133,853	138

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