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Noun: "the countryside"
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1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girle: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: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, 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.