Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #21562 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

readesreads

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

Puritas changed it: 496 times in 289 works
Consistency: 98.2% (496 of 505)
Reach if approved: ~531 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: reads
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 505 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (496 changes in 289 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 496)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… very bare repeating of the word effectuall. For as when a man heares or readesreads it, vnlesse the Spirit of God inlighteneth his heart, it is to no purpose …
With rule
… very bare repeating of the word effectuall. For as when a man heares or readesreads it, vnlesse the Spirit of God inlighteneth his heart, it is to no purpose …
William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the proper use therof restored again. I doe not say, that hee offendeth that readesreads profane Authors, so that he doe but lightly passe them over; but this I …
With rule
… the proper use therof restored again. I doe not say, that hee offendeth that readesreads profane Authors, so that he doe but lightly passe them over; but this I …
John Rainolds · An Excellent Oration · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… compasse of it, it searcheth by piece-meale, part after part, as one that readesreads a great Volume in the darke with a Glow-worm; which shews him but …
With rule
… compasse of it, it searcheth by piece-meale, part after part, as one that readesreads a great Volume in the darke with a Glow-worm; which shews him but …
Francis Rous · The Art of Happiness · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… erre, purposely sent to lead me into all truth; it is even he that readesreads this Lecture to me; and he hath chosen the mouth of a Kingly Prophet …
With rule
… erre, purposely sent to lead me into all truth; it is even he that readesreads this Lecture to me; and he hath chosen the mouth of a Kingly Prophet …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
God alwayes readesreads dumbe Lectures of his Glory.
With rule
God alwayes readesreads dumbe Lectures of his Glory.
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his corruptions, and he humbles himſelfe before God, and he heares, and prayes, and readesreads, but when God pluckes him off the ſtage of the world, and his body …
With rule
… his corruptions, and he humbles himſelfe before God, and he heares, and prayes, and readesreads, but when God pluckes him off the ſtage of the world, and his body …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a letter to his friend, doth hee not ſpeake vnto him? and hee that readesreads his friends letter, doth hee not vnderſtand his meaning and intendment, becauſe the letter …
With rule
… a letter to his friend, doth hee not ſpeake vnto him? and hee that readesreads his friends letter, doth hee not vnderſtand his meaning and intendment, becauſe the letter …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, there may lie much, though pent vp in a narrow roome; when thou readesreads, then iudge of it; Thus much may bee sayd: Though many haue writ of …
With rule
… it, there may lie much, though pent vp in a narrow roome; when thou readesreads, then iudge of it; Thus much may bee sayd: Though many haue writ of …
William Pemble · A Brief Introduction to Geography · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Micro-Cosmography A21075

Printed
… dayes for recreation hee retyres thither, and looks ouer the prety booke his Tutor ReadesReads to him, which is commonly some short Historie, or a piece of Euphormio; for …
With rule
… dayes for recreation hee retyres thither, and looks ouer the prety booke his Tutor ReadesReads to him, which is commonly some short Historie, or a piece of Euphormio; for …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader

Scripture and Reason Pleased for Defensive Arms A55033

Printed
… execution of a moſt cruell ſentence, and executed it with all cruelty. But Pſal. 52. ReadesReads their doome. And Pſal. 54.4. Sutes the Ziphims too, thoſe of Davids owne Tribe, that …
With rule
… execution of a moſt cruell ſentence, and executed it with all cruelty. But Pſal. 52. ReadesReads their doome. And Pſal. 54.4. Sutes the Ziphims too, thoſe of Davids owne Tribe, that …
Herbert Palmer · Scripture and Reason Pleased for Defensive Arms · p. 73 · Open in the reader