Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2215 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swarmesswarms

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

Puritas changed it: 453 times in 298 works
Consistency: 97.2% (453 of 466)
Reach if approved: ~490 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: swarms
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 466 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (453 changes in 298 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 453)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by Gods aſſiſtance and bleſſing we ſhall breake off and chaſe away theſe curſed ſwarmesswarms of prophane thoughts and deſires; we ſhall become better armed againſt them afterwards, and …
With rule
… by Gods aſſiſtance and bleſſing we ſhall breake off and chaſe away theſe curſed ſwarmesswarms of prophane thoughts and deſires; we ſhall become better armed againſt them afterwards, and …
Paul Baynes · Brief Directions Unto a Godly Life · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if the plage and punishments of God breake out vpon vs by heapes and swarmesswarms, in pestilence in the Turke, and other warres, whome can we blame but our …
With rule
… if the plage and punishments of God breake out vpon vs by heapes and swarmesswarms, in pestilence in the Turke, and other warres, whome can we blame but our …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… changed into bloud; the earth ſwarming with frogs and graſhoppers. I ſee about them ſwarmesswarms of flies, by which the land was corrupted. I ſee their fruits deſtroyed, their …
With rule
… changed into bloud; the earth ſwarming with frogs and graſhoppers. I ſee about them ſwarmesswarms of flies, by which the land was corrupted. I ſee their fruits deſtroyed, their …
Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 282 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee come home to our selues, we shall finde this scripture verified among the swarmesswarms of Atheists, which make but a scorne of the word and Religion: tell any …
With rule
… wee come home to our selues, we shall finde this scripture verified among the swarmesswarms of Atheists, which make but a scorne of the word and Religion: tell any …
William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… most exquisitely adorned in an inescating womanish Dresse on the open Stage, where are swarmesswarms of lustfull Spectators, whose unchaste unruly lusts are apt to be enflamed with every …
With rule
… most exquisitely adorned in an inescating womanish Dresse on the open Stage, where are swarmesswarms of lustfull Spectators, whose unchaste unruly lusts are apt to be enflamed with every …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
… now are, forbearing no time, ſparing no paines, to captiuate and deſtroy? Witneſſe the ſwarmesswarms of their bookes, which you may heare humming vp and downe in euery corner …
With rule
… now are, forbearing no time, ſparing no paines, to captiuate and deſtroy? Witneſſe the ſwarmesswarms of their bookes, which you may heare humming vp and downe in euery corner …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… himſe f into an Angell of Light, will fill our hearts and heads with ſwarmesswarms of euill luſts, noyſome delights, cares and diſtractions: which will draw our Mindes from …
With rule
… himſe f into an Angell of Light, will fill our hearts and heads with ſwarmesswarms of euill luſts, noyſome delights, cares and diſtractions: which will draw our Mindes from …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this rule we finde in experience, eſpecially in melancholy perſons, when they have ſwarmesswarms of thoughts buzzing in their mindes, ſometimes reſtleſſe feares that doe chaſe their hearts …
With rule
… of this rule we finde in experience, eſpecially in melancholy perſons, when they have ſwarmesswarms of thoughts buzzing in their mindes, ſometimes reſtleſſe feares that doe chaſe their hearts …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 636 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Door of Hope A28659

Printed
… duſt of the land throughout all the land of Egypt. Of the former (viz.) SwarmesSwarms of Flies, ſee Exod. 8. v. 21, 24. Behold, I will ſend ſwarmesswarms of ſlies upon thee …
With rule
… duſt of the land throughout all the land of Egypt. Of the former (viz.) SwarmesSwarms of Flies, ſee Exod. 8. v. 21, 24. Behold, I will ſend ſwarmesswarms of ſlies upon thee …
John Bond · A Door of Hope · p. 26 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

Printed
SwarmesSwarms of Popiſhe ſectes. 280. a. …
With rule
SwarmesSwarms of Popiſhe ſectes. 280. a. …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

Historical Vindication Part 2 A91269

Printed
… HE KNEW VERY WELL, that EMISSARIES OF THE JESUITES NEVER CAME OVER IN THOSE SWARMESSWARMS AS THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THESE THINGS WERE SET ON FOOT. That DIVERS GENTLEMEN …
With rule
… HE KNEW VERY WELL, that EMISSARIES OF THE JESUITES NEVER CAME OVER IN THOSE SWARMESSWARMS AS THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THESE THINGS WERE SET ON FOOT. That DIVERS GENTLEMEN …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 2 · Open in the reader