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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1821 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

songesong

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

Puritas changed it
355 times in 112 works
Consistency
96.2% (355 of 369)
Reach if approved
~388 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: song
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
369 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (355 changes in 112 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 355)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Daniel Heinsius; and with our English Sonnetters of a st…awe… to witnesse th… songesong: O the strawe the strawe! and then let them take forth and singe: Now …
    With rule
    … Daniel Heinsius; and with our English Sonnetters of a st…awe… to witnesse th… songesong: O the strawe the strawe! and then let them take forth and singe: Now …

    William Twisse · The Doctrine of the Synod of Dort · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … againſt the ſinceritie of the text, in your bookes you read thus, and he ſongesong naked. This came to paſſe by negligence in the writer, miſtaking one letter for …
    With rule
    … againſt the ſinceritie of the text, in your bookes you read thus, and he ſongesong naked. This came to paſſe by negligence in the writer, miſtaking one letter for …

    William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 297 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of vs al in your Epistle / that we should denie that Psalmes should be songesong vnto God. The Lorde keepe me frō such errour. And a wofull Phisition you …
    With rule
    … of vs al in your Epistle / that we should denie that Psalmes should be songesong vnto God. The Lorde keepe me frō such errour. And a wofull Phisition you …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … hath gone afore / are the onlye wayes to his lore. First ye haue euen songesong and compline in latyne withe the sensinge of your aultres to beginne the solempnite …
    With rule
    … hath gone afore / are the onlye wayes to his lore. First ye haue euen songesong and compline in latyne withe the sensinge of your aultres to beginne the solempnite …

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … name written in their foreheades &c. and they sang as it were a newe songesong, before ye throne, and before the foure beastes & the elders, & none coulde learne the …
    With rule
    … name written in their foreheades &c. and they sang as it were a newe songesong, before ye throne, and before the foure beastes & the elders, & none coulde learne the …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 252 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … humbled through knowledge of him ſelfe, and made deſirous of Chriſt, according to the ſongesong of Marie: The Lorde hath filled the hungrie with good thinges, and the rich …
    With rule
    … humbled through knowledge of him ſelfe, and made deſirous of Chriſt, according to the ſongesong of Marie: The Lorde hath filled the hungrie with good thinges, and the rich …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    The thyrd part of this songesong And good will towardes men.
    With rule
    The thyrd part of this songesong And good will towardes men.

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … beleeuers, of which afterwardes that ſame multitude of heauenly hoſtes doe mention in their ſongesong: Glorie in the higheſt heauens to God, peace to the earth, A good wil …
    With rule
    … beleeuers, of which afterwardes that ſame multitude of heauenly hoſtes doe mention in their ſongesong: Glorie in the higheſt heauens to God, peace to the earth, A good wil …

    Caspar Olevian · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 118 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

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

Collected Sermons A06521

  • Printed
    … vnder his winges, and thou shalt be ſafe vnder his fethers. And in the SongeSong of Salomon it is ſaid: My ſpouſe is a doue, building her neaſt in …
    With rule
    … vnder his winges, and thou shalt be ſafe vnder his fethers. And in the SongeSong of Salomon it is ſaid: My ſpouſe is a doue, building her neaſt in …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 151 · Open in the reader

The Scholars Purgatory Discovered A15655

  • Printed
    … also. For a greate part of them are parcells of the Canonicall Scriptures: originally SongeSong. And, to say any fragment thereof, were needeles, is in effect, to deminish from …
    With rule
    … also. For a greate part of them are parcells of the Canonicall Scriptures: originally SongeSong. And, to say any fragment thereof, were needeles, is in effect, to deminish from …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … not to be ledd by their example. They were diuided among themselues, concerning that SongeSong; some receiuing it among the bookes called Hagiographa, and some reiecting it. And it …
    With rule
    … not to be ledd by their example. They were diuided among themselues, concerning that SongeSong; some receiuing it among the bookes called Hagiographa, and some reiecting it. And it …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 59 · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

  • Printed
    Nowe doeth hee sette downe and shewe the SongeSong of the holye Virgine, notable and woorthy to be reported, whereby it plainely appeareth …
    With rule
    Nowe doeth hee sette downe and shewe the SongeSong of the holye Virgine, notable and woorthy to be reported, whereby it plainely appeareth …

    John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … excelled in the gifte of the spirite. And there are three partes of this SongeSong, for Marie with a solempne thankes geuing, doeth first declare the mercie of God …
    With rule
    … excelled in the gifte of the spirite. And there are three partes of this SongeSong, for Marie with a solempne thankes geuing, doeth first declare the mercie of God …

    John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 34 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

  • Printed
    … shewed before. And to this number onely is ability given to learne the Newe SongeSong, as wee shall ſee in the foureteenth chapter and at the third verſe. Which …
    With rule
    … shewed before. And to this number onely is ability given to learne the Newe SongeSong, as wee shall ſee in the foureteenth chapter and at the third verſe. Which …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 205 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ſowers of privie grudges. Of whom Moſes that excellent Prophet ſpake well in his SongeSong, a people without councell and underſtanding: Oh that they would knowe, that they would …
    With rule
    … ſowers of privie grudges. Of whom Moſes that excellent Prophet ſpake well in his SongeSong, a people without councell and underſtanding: Oh that they would knowe, that they would …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 265 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in cloudes, Centur. 8. from Polych. booke 5. 25. In the ſame place is rehearſed that a SongeSong of Felix Archbiſhop of Ravenna, placed by the Pope Conſtantine in the moſt ſacred …
    With rule
    … in cloudes, Centur. 8. from Polych. booke 5. 25. In the ſame place is rehearſed that a SongeSong of Felix Archbiſhop of Ravenna, placed by the Pope Conſtantine in the moſt ſacred …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 375 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ¶ And no man could learne that SongeSong: Through all the ſpace that the Church lay hid chap. 12.6. For now the multitude …
    With rule
    ¶ And no man could learne that SongeSong: Through all the ſpace that the Church lay hid chap. 12.6. For now the multitude …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 393 · Open in the reader

Sermons on the Song of Hezekiah A17716

  • Printed
    SERMONS OF JOHN CALVIN, VPON THE SONGESONG that Ezechias made after he had bene ſicke, and afflicted by the hand of …
    With rule
    SERMONS OF JOHN CALVIN, VPON THE SONGESONG that Ezechias made after he had bene ſicke, and afflicted by the hand of …

    John Calvin · Sermons on the Song of Hezekiah · Open in the reader

The Key of the Revelation A89026

  • Printed
    … brimm… of t…e Sea or lavour of glaſſe, and ſingi…g the tryumphant SongeSong chap. 15. 2. and that alſo in heaven, verſe 1. what in the ſame place verſe 5. The …
    With rule
    … brimm… of t…e Sea or lavour of glaſſe, and ſingi…g the tryumphant SongeSong chap. 15. 2. and that alſo in heaven, verſe 1. what in the ſame place verſe 5. The …

    Joseph Mede · The Key of the Revelation · p. 34 · Open in the reader