misery vs rue

misery

noun
  • A bodily ache or pain. 

  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. 

  • poverty. 

  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. 

rue

verb
  • To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. 

noun
  • Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines. 

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