Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2124 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stayestay

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

Puritas changed it: 364 times in 160 works
Consistency: 99.4% (364 of 366)
Reach if approved: ~385 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stay
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 366 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (364 changes in 160 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 364)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to stynge me. In deede I haue prepared al redy moderate defence, but I stayestay vppon certayne dóubtes that are these:
With rule
… to stynge me. In deede I haue prepared al redy moderate defence, but I stayestay vppon certayne dóubtes that are these:
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader
Printed
Whom fonde feare hath framed, to prop ſuch a ſtayestay,
With rule
Whom fonde feare hath framed, to prop ſuch a ſtayestay,
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · Open in the reader
Printed
… y^e Emperours behalfe, as his owne sickenes at his settinge forward caused him to stayestay, besides the death of the Lautgraue. Therfore (sayth Vspergensis) this Pope like a proude …
With rule
… y^e Emperours behalfe, as his owne sickenes at his settinge forward caused him to stayestay, besides the death of the Lautgraue. Therfore (sayth Vspergensis) this Pope like a proude …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… oure hartes too obey thy holy lawes. Beholde our trobles and apparant deſtruction / and ſtayestay the ſworde of thy vengeaunce before it deuoure vs. Place aboue vs o Lorde …
With rule
… oure hartes too obey thy holy lawes. Beholde our trobles and apparant deſtruction / and ſtayestay the ſworde of thy vengeaunce before it deuoure vs. Place aboue vs o Lorde …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… then horſes being ſtirred vp with furie or rage. So therfore by reſiſting they ſtayestay the kingdome of Chriſt from them, and depriue Chriſt of gold, which notwithſtanding they …
With rule
… then horſes being ſtirred vp with furie or rage. So therfore by reſiſting they ſtayestay the kingdome of Chriſt from them, and depriue Chriſt of gold, which notwithſtanding they …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… theyr iurneys to be theyr companion to comfort them to be theyr ſtaffe to ſtayestay them and holde thē vp. And finally in al theyr paſtimes, to be theyr …
With rule
… theyr iurneys to be theyr companion to comfort them to be theyr ſtaffe to ſtayestay them and holde thē vp. And finally in al theyr paſtimes, to be theyr …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. lxxxviii · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon thine altar, Lord, it is not in them, where thou wilt haue vs ſtayestay: There muſt be another maner of oblation to appeaſe thine ire, and a price …
With rule
… vpon thine altar, Lord, it is not in them, where thou wilt haue vs ſtayestay: There muſt be another maner of oblation to appeaſe thine ire, and a price …
Theodore Beza · Meditations Upon Eight Psalms · Open in the reader
Printed
… wilt not enter in action and be ay going forward while thou getſt a ſtayestay, thou hadſt neuer an he rtlie deſire to do well. He ſayes, I vvould …
With rule
… wilt not enter in action and be ay going forward while thou getſt a ſtayestay, thou hadſt neuer an he rtlie deſire to do well. He ſayes, I vvould …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 106 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric A00630

Printed
… I haue ſpoken my wordes, or matter, ver. 33. and in making ſpeede he ſayde, StayeStay me not, ſeeing the Lord hath proſpered my waye. Sende me backe that I …
With rule
… I haue ſpoken my wordes, or matter, ver. 33. and in making ſpeede he ſayde, StayeStay me not, ſeeing the Lord hath proſpered my waye. Sende me backe that I …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader