Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1453 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

playesplays

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

Puritas changed it: 4,264 times in 593 works
Consistency: 99.5% (4,264 of 4,284)
Reach if approved: ~4,501 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: plays
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,284 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,264 changes in 593 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,264)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… iudge it not ſenſeleſſe to ſay (which he doubteth of pa. 147.) that in childrens playesplays, at Even, and Odde, or at Heades, & Points, there is an immediate Providence, In …
With rule
… iudge it not ſenſeleſſe to ſay (which he doubteth of pa. 147.) that in childrens playesplays, at Even, and Odde, or at Heades, & Points, there is an immediate Providence, In …
James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſecondly, he muſt get him to cards, and to dice, to ſports and to playesplays, untill his conſcience be benumed and ſeared, and then thirdly all goodneſſe muſt be …
With rule
… ſecondly, he muſt get him to cards, and to dice, to ſports and to playesplays, untill his conſcience be benumed and ſeared, and then thirdly all goodneſſe muſt be …
Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
III. The argument of Stage-playesplays.
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III. The argument of Stage-playesplays.
Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… viz. Iohn Bridges is by right to diſplace the other, with whō Lambeth now playesplays the aſſe, and is him ſelfe to be after a ſolemne maner, according to …
With rule
… viz. Iohn Bridges is by right to diſplace the other, with whō Lambeth now playesplays the aſſe, and is him ſelfe to be after a ſolemne maner, according to …
Martin Marprelate · The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior · Open in the reader
Printed
… the heart, when he feares discouery, and puts not forth his hornes. Sometimes he playesplays not in the Sunne actually, but borroughes deepe in the affections. The foxe keepes …
With rule
… the heart, when he feares discouery, and puts not forth his hornes. Sometimes he playesplays not in the Sunne actually, but borroughes deepe in the affections. The foxe keepes …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in his booke De spectaculis, speaking of cunning workemanship of Imagery, shewed in those playesplays, and the auctors of them, sayeth: Scimus enim nihil esse nomina mortuorum, sicut nec …
With rule
… in his booke De spectaculis, speaking of cunning workemanship of Imagery, shewed in those playesplays, and the auctors of them, sayeth: Scimus enim nihil esse nomina mortuorum, sicut nec …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuch a point of impiety, what is it to enterpriſe war with masks, enterludes, playesplays, and ſuch kind of ſports? Can a bleſſing be expected in ſuch courſes?
With rule
… ſuch a point of impiety, what is it to enterpriſe war with masks, enterludes, playesplays, and ſuch kind of ſports? Can a bleſſing be expected in ſuch courſes?
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
In all your iuglynge playesplays.
With rule
In all your iuglynge playesplays.
John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 are listed here. 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations A00641

Printed
A SHORTE TREATISE against STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS
With rule
A SHORTE TREATISE against STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · Open in the reader
Printed
A SHORT TREATISE OF STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS.
With rule
A SHORT TREATISE OF STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS.
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 5 · Open in the reader

A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays A05288

Printed
A SHORTE TREATISE against STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS
With rule
A SHORTE TREATISE against STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS
Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · Open in the reader
Printed
A SHORT TREATISE OF STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS.
With rule
A SHORT TREATISE OF STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS.
Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · p. 5 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

Printed
… may behold a reall, and liuely experiment of it, in prophane, and poysonous STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS; the common Idole, and preuailing euill of our dissolute, and degenerous Age: which though …
With rule
… may behold a reall, and liuely experiment of it, in prophane, and poysonous STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS; the common Idole, and preuailing euill of our dissolute, and degenerous Age: which though …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… FAITHFVLL CHRISTIANS, yea, IT IS ALTOGETHER VNLAVVFVLL FOR THEM TO BE PRESENT AT THESE PLAYESPLAYS. These so vaine, so pernicious, so sachrilegious Stage-playesplays, AS I HAVE NOVV OFTEN …
With rule
… FAITHFVLL CHRISTIANS, yea, IT IS ALTOGETHER VNLAVVFVLL FOR THEM TO BE PRESENT AT THESE PLAYESPLAYS. These so vaine, so pernicious, so sachrilegious Stage-playesplays, AS I HAVE NOVV OFTEN …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 329 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and governed, is instructed to commit sinnes and vices by these representations. THEREFORE ALL PLAYESPLAYS ARE TO BEE AVOYDED, THAT VVE MAY enioy a serene state of minde. THESE …
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… and governed, is instructed to commit sinnes and vices by these representations. THEREFORE ALL PLAYESPLAYS ARE TO BEE AVOYDED, THAT VVE MAY enioy a serene state of minde. THESE …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 329 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such… sports, polluting even their hands, their eyes & eares with such CONDEMNED AND PROHIBITED PLAYESPLAYS: that others trully, not obscurely and covertly, intermingle themselves in Cirque-playesplays and horse …
With rule
… such… sports, polluting even their hands, their eyes & eares with such CONDEMNED AND PROHIBITED PLAYESPLAYS: that others trully, not obscurely and covertly, intermingle themselves in Cirque-playesplays and horse …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 661 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beare witnesse to them, or to be present at such PLEBEIAN SPECTACLES AND STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS which wee have spoken of before, or to doe any of those things that …
With rule
… beare witnesse to them, or to be present at such PLEBEIAN SPECTACLES AND STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS which wee have spoken of before, or to doe any of those things that …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 661 · Open in the reader

The Overthrow of Stage Plays A10335

Printed
Th'overthrow OF STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS, By the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes, wherein all the …
With rule
Th'overthrow OF STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS, By the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes, wherein all the …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · Open in the reader

Defense of Stage Plays A89183

Printed
Mr VVilliam Prynn his Defence of STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS.
With rule
Mr VVilliam Prynn his Defence of STAGE-PLAYESPLAYS.
William Prynne · Defense of Stage Plays · p. 3 · Open in the reader