Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1335 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

flockeflock

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 5,342 times in 1,116 works
Consistency: 99.9% (5,342 of 5,343)
Reach if approved: ~5,618 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: flock
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 5,347 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,342 changes in 1,116 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,342)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
For why ſhould I be as one that pitcheth her tents by the flockeflock of thy companions) Herein great care and circumſpection is to be had, that we …
With rule
For why ſhould I be as one that pitcheth her tents by the flockeflock of thy companions) Herein great care and circumſpection is to be had, that we …
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhepheards driue not their ſheepe, but they call them and they follow them. Euery flockeflock knoweth the voice of their owne ſhepheard, by often hearing him, & they follow him …
With rule
… ſhepheards driue not their ſheepe, but they call them and they follow them. Euery flockeflock knoweth the voice of their owne ſhepheard, by often hearing him, & they follow him …
Thomas Granger · The Light of the World · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thy ſheep & thy goats haue not left their young, and the rammes of thy flockeflock haue I not eaten. The torne I brought vnto thee, but made it good …
With rule
… thy ſheep & thy goats haue not left their young, and the rammes of thy flockeflock haue I not eaten. The torne I brought vnto thee, but made it good …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
4. The fourth is, that God will honour, bleſſe and proſper his faithfull flockeflock aboue all people in the world, in all things pertayning to this preſent life …
With rule
4. The fourth is, that God will honour, bleſſe and proſper his faithfull flockeflock aboue all people in the world, in all things pertayning to this preſent life …
John Foorthe · The Apostles Catechism · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
THE Office of Miniſters is to watch ouer the flockeflock of the lord to feed it, to preſerue it in health and to keepe …
With rule
THE Office of Miniſters is to watch ouer the flockeflock of the lord to feed it, to preſerue it in health and to keepe …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
… her fornication: but y^e church of Christ, as he himself saith, is a smal flockeflock, and him self by Symeon is said to be a signe of contradictiō, a …
With rule
… her fornication: but y^e church of Christ, as he himself saith, is a smal flockeflock, and him self by Symeon is said to be a signe of contradictiō, a …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are our feete to forbidden pathes? the Flesh calles, we come▪ Vanitie calles, we flockeflock: the World calles, we flye: Let Christ call earely and late, and either we …
With rule
… are our feete to forbidden pathes? the Flesh calles, we come▪ Vanitie calles, we flockeflock: the World calles, we flye: Let Christ call earely and late, and either we …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… When as therefore the hireling, the idle Drone, and the Idoll ſhepheard haue the flockeflock of the Shéepe & Lambes of Chriſt and doe not féede them, or at the …
With rule
… When as therefore the hireling, the idle Drone, and the Idoll ſhepheard haue the flockeflock of the Shéepe & Lambes of Chriſt and doe not féede them, or at the …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.