Citations:deuseaville
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English citations of deuseaville, deuse a vile, and deuseavile
Noun: "the countryside"[edit]
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- 1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girle[1]:
- A gage of ben Rom-bouse, / In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile, / Is benar than a Caster, / Pecke, pennam, lay, or popler, / Which we mill in deuse a vile.
- 1673, Richard Head, The Canting Academy[2]:
- This Doxy Dell can cut been whids, / And wap well for a win, / And prig and cloy so benshiply / All the Deuseavile within.
- 1707, “The Rum-Mort's Praise of Her Faithless Maunder”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris[3], published 1896, page 36:
- Duds and cheats thou oft hast won, / Yet the cuffin quire couldst shun; / And the deuseaville didst run, / Else the chates had thee undone.