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But most especially rejoice in your self, if this grunting and groaning happen only by day time; because then you may somtimes avoid it, or divertise your self with other company.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

[Sidenote: Walker: 'A man should not divertise himself with his Inferiors, nor make his Servants privy to his infirmities and failures. ']

George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

"Wait here," said the kinsman, to the man who accompanied them, "till I go for company to divertise my cousin in his loneliness."

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890

Matré Clark, to divertise you, I vill tell you, how I did get be acquainted vid dis Bedlam Matré.

Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Sir Roger L'Estrange was wont to divertise himself with cocking in his father's (Sir Hammond L'Estrange's) park; he dreamt that there came to him in such a place of the park, a servant, who brought him news, that his father was taken very ill.

Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661

“till I go for company to divertise my cousin in his loneliness.”

Melmoth the Wanderer 2004