Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1390 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sayessays

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

Puritas changed it: 19,051 times in 1,479 works
Consistency: 99.9% (19,051 of 19,052)
Reach if approved: ~20,023 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: says
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 19,057 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (19,051 changes in 1,479 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 19,051)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… yeelding was out of fleſh, and ſo they glory in your fleſh and weakneſſe, ſayessays he; as the Papiſts urged Cranmer, not by arguments, but threats and promiſes to …
With rule
… yeelding was out of fleſh, and ſo they glory in your fleſh and weakneſſe, ſayessays he; as the Papiſts urged Cranmer, not by arguments, but threats and promiſes to …
Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… chaſtening? But never have ſuch a thought of David: for heare him what hee ſayessays farther: Heale mee, for my bones are troubled, and ſurely, if his bones bee …
With rule
… chaſtening? But never have ſuch a thought of David: for heare him what hee ſayessays farther: Heale mee, for my bones are troubled, and ſurely, if his bones bee …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or ſit downe by its ſentence, ſtop, where it ſayessays ſtop, worke, where it ſayessays worke, feare, where it ſaies feare, hope, where he giues hope, reſtore, where it …
With rule
… or ſit downe by its ſentence, ſtop, where it ſayessays ſtop, worke, where it ſayessays worke, feare, where it ſaies feare, hope, where he giues hope, reſtore, where it …
Robert Harris · Two Sermons 2 · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an inheritance among them that are ſanctified, without holineſſe no man ſhall ſee God, ſayessays the Apoſtle, Heb. 12.14. and except yee be borne againe, ſaith our Saviour, Iohn 3.3. Ye …
With rule
… an inheritance among them that are ſanctified, without holineſſe no man ſhall ſee God, ſayessays the Apoſtle, Heb. 12.14. and except yee be borne againe, ſaith our Saviour, Iohn 3.3. Ye …
Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if you be often reprooved & will not be bettered nor informed, then the Lord ſayessays, & conſcience frō the Lord tells you, be it at your own perill, ye ſhall …
With rule
… if you be often reprooved & will not be bettered nor informed, then the Lord ſayessays, & conſcience frō the Lord tells you, be it at your own perill, ye ſhall …
Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… before Kings, and held the Crownes of Kings upon their heads, and the Pope sayessays no more.
With rule
… before Kings, and held the Crownes of Kings upon their heads, and the Pope sayessays no more.
John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can dote upon it? what madneſſe is it in thoſe men which (as Menot ſayessays) like unto hunters, that kill an horſe of price in the purſuit of an …
With rule
… can dote upon it? what madneſſe is it in thoſe men which (as Menot ſayessays) like unto hunters, that kill an horſe of price in the purſuit of an …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 428 · Open in the reader
Printed
It must needs be good mettall that will abide nine and twenty sayessays or examinations. It must needes be a golden ministery that did abide so many …
With rule
It must needs be good mettall that will abide nine and twenty sayessays or examinations. It must needes be a golden ministery that did abide so many …
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 85 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Jews Sabbath Antiquated and the Lords Day Instituted A97211

Printed
This (as one ſayessays0 is void of all judgment: Anſw. For in the readieſt conſtruction of the words …
With rule
This (as one ſayessays0 is void of all judgment: Anſw. For in the readieſt conſtruction of the words …
Edmund Warren · The Jews Sabbath Antiquated and the Lords Day Instituted · p. 195 · Open in the reader