Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2019 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lurkelurk

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

Puritas changed it: 378 times in 242 works
Consistency: 99.4% (378 of 380)
Reach if approved: ~399 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lurk
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 380 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (378 changes in 242 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 378)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſhalt not vvant a vvitneſſe: thinke nor, vvhen thou art ſinning, thou ſhalt ay lurkelurk ſtill in ſinne; no, the Lord at laſt will take thee out and make …
With rule
… ſhalt not vvant a vvitneſſe: thinke nor, vvhen thou art ſinning, thou ſhalt ay lurkelurk ſtill in ſinne; no, the Lord at laſt will take thee out and make …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of men; Vt creatoris aut lateat cogitationem, aut effugiat potestatem; that it may either lurkelurk from the eye, or escape from the hand of God. No Master of a …
With rule
… of men; Vt creatoris aut lateat cogitationem, aut effugiat potestatem; that it may either lurkelurk from the eye, or escape from the hand of God. No Master of a …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… worke, to be exhibited to a publike view in any open place, vsed to lurkelurk priuily behinde the same himselfe, to heare the diuers and dissonant opinions & censures, which …
With rule
… worke, to be exhibited to a publike view in any open place, vsed to lurkelurk priuily behinde the same himselfe, to heare the diuers and dissonant opinions & censures, which …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Word is able to discover every corruption to us, how closely soever it lurkelurk in our hearts, and the loathsomnesse, and odiousnesse of it also, by the law …
With rule
… the Word is able to discover every corruption to us, how closely soever it lurkelurk in our hearts, and the loathsomnesse, and odiousnesse of it also, by the law …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 321 · Open in the reader
Printed
Here I mensuer the, wherfore to lurkelurk go lere the.
With rule
Here I mensuer the, wherfore to lurkelurk go lere the.
David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader
Printed
When they returnd, I lurkelurk on them and …ande
With rule
When they returnd, I lurkelurk on them and …ande
James Melville · A Spiritual Propine of a Pastor to his People · Open in the reader
Printed
… by-corners in our hearts, where secret vnbeleefe, secret hypocrisie, and spirituall pride may lurkelurk, and lie hid from the eies of men. Heb. 3. 12. Thirdly, we must not onely …
With rule
… by-corners in our hearts, where secret vnbeleefe, secret hypocrisie, and spirituall pride may lurkelurk, and lie hid from the eies of men. Heb. 3. 12. Thirdly, we must not onely …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fairer Europe) doe giue good hope of future discoueries in those parts, which yet lurkelurk vnder that obscure curtaine of Terra Incognita. Acknowledging both in the one and the …
With rule
… fairer Europe) doe giue good hope of future discoueries in those parts, which yet lurkelurk vnder that obscure curtaine of Terra Incognita. Acknowledging both in the one and the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 461 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.