devise vs play by ear

devise

verb
  • To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something). 

  • To leave (property) in a will. 

noun
  • The act of leaving real property in a will. 

  • Design, devising. 

  • Such a will, or a clause in such a will. 

  • The real property left in such a will. 

play by ear

verb
  • To do by guessing, intuition, or trial and error; to react to events as they occur; improvise 

  • To play guided by one's musical ear, rather than from a written score. 

How often have the words devise and play by ear occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )