Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2268 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

walkeswalks

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

Puritas changed it: 1,025 times in 523 works
Consistency: 98.1% (1,025 of 1,044)
Reach if approved: ~1,097 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: walks
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,044 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,025 changes in 523 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,025)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… eyes, and ſcarcely ſees; eares, and heares not; mouth, and ſpeakes not; feet, but walkeswalks not: nay yet further, thoſe ſenſes & parts which let in comfort to the ſound …
With rule
… eyes, and ſcarcely ſees; eares, and heares not; mouth, and ſpeakes not; feet, but walkeswalks not: nay yet further, thoſe ſenſes & parts which let in comfort to the ſound …
Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wilderneſſe, here and there is a Saint of God and a poore ſoule, that walkeswalks in ſincerity, but for the common, the generall ſort deny the power of godlineſſe …
With rule
… wilderneſſe, here and there is a Saint of God and a poore ſoule, that walkeswalks in ſincerity, but for the common, the generall ſort deny the power of godlineſſe …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hauing ſtrangely, and by miracle, without meanes, receiued health and power to walke, he walkeswalks to the Temple, (the houſe of prayer and praiſe) probably, (I thinke I may …
With rule
… hauing ſtrangely, and by miracle, without meanes, receiued health and power to walke, he walkeswalks to the Temple, (the houſe of prayer and praiſe) probably, (I thinke I may …
Robert Horne · A Caveat to Prevent Future Judgments · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… poynt they refused him. These men walked by …, and the saying is, many by walkeswalks, many balkes, many balkes much stumbling, and wher much stumbling is, there is sometime …
With rule
… poynt they refused him. These men walked by …, and the saying is, many by walkeswalks, many balkes, many balkes much stumbling, and wher much stumbling is, there is sometime …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… shee arriued at Paris the 15. of the same Moneth, and began to make divers walkeswalks to and fro, throughout the Cittie, to the houses and booths of the Merchants …
With rule
… shee arriued at Paris the 15. of the same Moneth, and began to make divers walkeswalks to and fro, throughout the Cittie, to the houses and booths of the Merchants …
James Melville · Fruitful and Comfortable Exhortation in Death · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no way defiled by walking through the midſt of the golden candleſtickes. Whereſoever he walkeswalks he maketh it holy ground. Quicquid calcaverit hic roſa fiet.
With rule
… no way defiled by walking through the midſt of the golden candleſtickes. Whereſoever he walkeswalks he maketh it holy ground. Quicquid calcaverit hic roſa fiet.
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 475 · Open in the reader
Printed
… content to the mind: no more then the dreamed bread of the Sluggard, who walkeswalks with an empty stomacke. Thou shalt eate, but not bee satisfied. All things are …
With rule
… content to the mind: no more then the dreamed bread of the Sluggard, who walkeswalks with an empty stomacke. Thou shalt eate, but not bee satisfied. All things are …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of thy head is like to purple, a King might bee tyed to theſe walkeswalks.
With rule
… of thy head is like to purple, a King might bee tyed to theſe walkeswalks.
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 54 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Black Devil A00564

Printed
Trauell. He WalkesWalks.
With rule
Trauell. He WalkesWalks.
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 8 · Open in the reader

A Child of Light Walking in Darkness A01898

Printed
… uſe of, as of a ſtaffe, (as David compares it Pſal. 23. 4.) whileſt, he thus WalkesWalks in darkneſſe, and through the valley of the ſhadow of death, ſafely to truſt …
With rule
… uſe of, as of a ſtaffe, (as David compares it Pſal. 23. 4.) whileſt, he thus WalkesWalks in darkneſſe, and through the valley of the ſhadow of death, ſafely to truſt …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 3 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… house is fifty fiue paces in length, and hath in it three Iles or WalkesWalks, and forty great Pillars gilded, which stand betweene them. It is gilded with golde …
With rule
… house is fifty fiue paces in length, and hath in it three Iles or WalkesWalks, and forty great Pillars gilded, which stand betweene them. It is gilded with golde …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 396 · Open in the reader

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

Printed
WalkesWalks through all, he saw before.
With rule
WalkesWalks through all, he saw before.
George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

Fidelia Newly Corrected and Augmented A15642

Printed
Viewing againe those other WalkesWalks, and Groues
With rule
Viewing againe those other WalkesWalks, and Groues
George Wither · Fidelia Newly Corrected and Augmented · Open in the reader

The Hymns and Songs of the Church A15647

Printed
To those forsaken-WalkesWalks repaire,
With rule
To those forsaken-WalkesWalks repaire,
George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 175 · Open in the reader

A Gospel Church A39931

Printed
… walk in them: to reſt and repoſe himſelf in them as in his holy WalkesWalks, Gardens, houſes and Temples, 2 Cor. 6.16. Rev 2.1. Pſal. 132.13, 14. For the Lord hath chiſen Zion, he …
With rule
… walk in them: to reſt and repoſe himſelf in them as in his holy WalkesWalks, Gardens, houſes and Temples, 2 Cor. 6.16. Rev 2.1. Pſal. 132.13, 14. For the Lord hath chiſen Zion, he …
Stephen Ford · A Gospel Church · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Counſels unto them, as to his avowed and publique houſhold and family, Eph. 2.19. Chriſt WalkesWalks, and God the Father Dwells there, & the Holy Spirit Speaks to them in an …
With rule
… Counſels unto them, as to his avowed and publique houſhold and family, Eph. 2.19. Chriſt WalkesWalks, and God the Father Dwells there, & the Holy Spirit Speaks to them in an …
Stephen Ford · A Gospel Church · p. 28 · Open in the reader

The Temple in the Days of our Savior Described A48446

Printed
Onely upon the South ſide of the Square there was ſome difference of the WalkesWalks or Cloiſter from what was in the other parts.
With rule
Onely upon the South ſide of the Square there was ſome difference of the WalkesWalks or Cloiſter from what was in the other parts.
John Lightfoot · The Temple in the Days of our Savior Described · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the roofe of this walke was as high againe as the roofe of the WalkesWalks on either ſide, and theſe altogether were as the upper and lower leads of …
With rule
… the roofe of this walke was as high againe as the roofe of the WalkesWalks on either ſide, and theſe altogether were as the upper and lower leads of …
John Lightfoot · The Temple in the Days of our Savior Described · p. 30 · Open in the reader

Collection of Poems A68914

Printed
Thoſe that chooſe their WalkesWalks at will,
With rule
Thoſe that chooſe their WalkesWalks at will,
George Wither · Collection of Poems · Open in the reader