"durance vile" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1794, Robert Burns, Epistle from Esopus to Maria:",
          "text": "In durance vile here must I wake and weep",
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          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 74:",
          "text": "Two of the tribe were captured and put in irons, Binmook and Tommy, whose photographs, taken when in durance vile, I have by me still.",
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          "ref": "1994 February 19, The Canberra Times, page 15, column 3:",
          "text": "That is, Messrs Brown and Hinton would have been in durance vile before the issue could be litigated: the High Court does not give advisory decisions.",
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        "A long prison sentence."
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        "(archaic, idiomatic) A long prison sentence."
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          "text": "Two of the tribe were captured and put in irons, Binmook and Tommy, whose photographs, taken when in durance vile, I have by me still.",
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        "(archaic, idiomatic) A long prison sentence."
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