Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2131 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swarmeswarm

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

Puritas changed it: 431 times in 292 works
Consistency: 98.8% (431 of 436)
Reach if approved: ~458 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: swarm
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 436 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (431 changes in 292 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 431)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… beares / and byte as they dare lyke cruel wolues / …ringe togyther in corners … a swarmeswarm of add…rs in a donge hyss / … wylye subtile serpentes / to vphold… and pr …
With rule
… beares / and byte as they dare lyke cruel wolues / …ringe togyther in corners … a swarmeswarm of add…rs in a donge hyss / … wylye subtile serpentes / to vphold… and pr …
John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader
Printed
If Anabaptiſtes, denying magiſtracy, and that Chriſt tooke fleſh of the Virgin Mary, ſhould ſwarmeswarm in England, and if Magiſtrates ſhould puniſh in a more ciuil manner of proceeding …
With rule
If Anabaptiſtes, denying magiſtracy, and that Chriſt tooke fleſh of the Virgin Mary, ſhould ſwarmeswarm in England, and if Magiſtrates ſhould puniſh in a more ciuil manner of proceeding …
James Balmford · Concerning the Lords Day, State of the Church of Rome, Execution of Priests · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… coniecture. For Sabellicus hath left in writing *, that the ſect of Franciſcans did ſo ſwarmeswarm throughout the whole world, that there were of them fortie prouinces, and that vnder …
With rule
… coniecture. For Sabellicus hath left in writing *, that the ſect of Franciſcans did ſo ſwarmeswarm throughout the whole world, that there were of them fortie prouinces, and that vnder …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of his heauenly father. O bleſſed Bées that may be ſo happy as to ſwarmeswarm about Chriſt, and to ſuck the ſwéete hony flowing from the floures of that …
With rule
… of his heauenly father. O bleſſed Bées that may be ſo happy as to ſwarmeswarm about Chriſt, and to ſuck the ſwéete hony flowing from the floures of that …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… very litle, obscure, & miserably deformed. Before the kingdome of the Romish Antichrist what a swarmeswarm of heretikes sprang vp? Of whem also the Church was sore vexed and afflicted …
With rule
… very litle, obscure, & miserably deformed. Before the kingdome of the Romish Antichrist what a swarmeswarm of heretikes sprang vp? Of whem also the Church was sore vexed and afflicted …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… asyde all charite and feare of God, & seake to be reuēged? Agē, what a swarmeswarm of wycked parsons are ther, whiche dishonour the name of oure God by vnlawfull …
With rule
… asyde all charite and feare of God, & seake to be reuēged? Agē, what a swarmeswarm of wycked parsons are ther, whiche dishonour the name of oure God by vnlawfull …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
… bréede this vile maladie, nay that doeth but detect it: As the world doeth ſwarmeswarm full of idle fooles, ſo is it certaine, that there be thouſands of theſe …
With rule
… bréede this vile maladie, nay that doeth but detect it: As the world doeth ſwarmeswarm full of idle fooles, ſo is it certaine, that there be thouſands of theſe …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… slew it; and after a few dayes going to looke vpon it, found a swarmeswarm of Bees and Honycombes in it: So godly men, when they reflect vpon their …
With rule
… slew it; and after a few dayes going to looke vpon it, found a swarmeswarm of Bees and Honycombes in it: So godly men, when they reflect vpon their …
Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 83 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

5 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.

Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame A02358

Printed
… the noysome Crew of Iesuiticall Frogges, with more whoorish fore-heads, eased that filthie SwarmeSwarm; and being the last Emissaries of that false Prophet, vnder-tooke that Taske: So …
With rule
… the noysome Crew of Iesuiticall Frogges, with more whoorish fore-heads, eased that filthie SwarmeSwarm; and being the last Emissaries of that false Prophet, vnder-tooke that Taske: So …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 111 · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
This Helmet, hiving of a SwarmeSwarm of Bees,
With rule
This Helmet, hiving of a SwarmeSwarm of Bees,
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 90 · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

Printed
… one dead Fly will corrupt a whole box of oyntment, how much more a SwarmeSwarm? And a little poyson corrected, and infused in a Potion, proves medicinall: but if …
With rule
… one dead Fly will corrupt a whole box of oyntment, how much more a SwarmeSwarm? And a little poyson corrected, and infused in a Potion, proves medicinall: but if …
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Hornets, armed troopes pursued after Davids life, and sometime inclosed him like a SwarmeSwarm of Bees? And for this very Cause, did not David complaine to the Lord …
With rule
… and Hornets, armed troopes pursued after Davids life, and sometime inclosed him like a SwarmeSwarm of Bees? And for this very Cause, did not David complaine to the Lord …
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 46 · Open in the reader

A Vindication of the Preacher Sent A90624

Printed
… may be called a particular company of ſheep, bees &c. though as a flock SwarmeSwarm they be no parts, but otherwiſe diſtinguiſhed, and ſo a Church of Saints, part …
With rule
… may be called a particular company of ſheep, bees &c. though as a flock SwarmeSwarm they be no parts, but otherwiſe diſtinguiſhed, and ſo a Church of Saints, part …
Frederick Woodall · A Vindication of the Preacher Sent · Open in the reader