espouse vs wive

espouse

verb
  • To become/get married to. 

  • To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). 

wive

verb
  • To marry (a woman). 

  • To provide (someone) with a wife. 

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