allay vs compose

allay

verb
  • To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm. 

  • To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate. 

noun
  • Alleviation; abatement; check. 

compose

verb
  • To calm; to free from agitation. 

  • To comprise. 

  • To make up the whole; to constitute. 

  • To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement. 

  • To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture. 

  • To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work. 

  • To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition. 

  • To make something by merging parts. 

How often have the words allay and compose occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )