interlude vs surcease

interlude

verb
  • To provide with an interlude. 

noun
  • An intervening episode, etc. 

  • An entertainment between the acts of a play. 

  • A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition. 

surcease

verb
  • To bring to an end. 

  • To come to an end; to desist. 

noun
  • Cessation; stop, stopping; end. Respite, intermission. 

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