Citations:deuseaville

English citations of deuseaville, deuse a vile, and deuseavile

Noun: "the countryside"

			1611 1673	1707
ME «	15th c.	16th c.	17th c.	18th c.	19th c.	20th c.	21st c.

• 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.

• 1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected with the Addition of Numerous Slang Phrases Collected from Tried Authorities, page 9:

  Five rumpadders are rubbed in the darkmans out of the Whit, and are piked into the deuseaville : five highwaymen broke out of Newgate in the night, and are gone into the country.