brook vs play it by the book

brook

noun
  • A water meadow. 

  • Low, marshy ground. 

  • A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. 

verb
  • To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate. 

play it by the book

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