Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2449 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

forsweareforswear

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

Puritas changed it: 358 times in 216 works
Consistency: 98.3% (358 of 364)
Reach if approved: ~385 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: forswear
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 (358 changes in 216 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 358)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… haue heard how it was said to them of old tyme: thou shalt not forsweareforswear thy selfe, but shalt performe vnto the Lord those thinges that thou swearest. But …
With rule
… haue heard how it was said to them of old tyme: thou shalt not forsweareforswear thy selfe, but shalt performe vnto the Lord those thinges that thou swearest. But …
Thomas Becon · The Principles of Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… abhominable periurie. Nay, it is many mens rule, that they may sweare, dissemble, lie, & forsweareforswear for aduantage. These sinnes are some of them rise in all sorts of people …
With rule
… abhominable periurie. Nay, it is many mens rule, that they may sweare, dissemble, lie, & forsweareforswear for aduantage. These sinnes are some of them rise in all sorts of people …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 308 · Open in the reader
Printed
Sweare not in all your affaires by GOD and his names. They which forsweareforswear themselues shall haue no good thing in the world to come. And 35. Sweare not …
With rule
Sweare not in all your affaires by GOD and his names. They which forsweareforswear themselues shall haue no good thing in the world to come. And 35. Sweare not …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fire in preſute of thoſe things: yea, for Golde they wil renounce their God; forſweareforswear their Father, periſh their ſoule, and their life, their King, countrey, and their Parents …
With rule
… fire in preſute of thoſe things: yea, for Golde they wil renounce their God; forſweareforswear their Father, periſh their ſoule, and their life, their King, countrey, and their Parents …
Archibald Simson · The Seven Days · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… speedy reparations. By the Iesuites argument, an aged decrepid man, all gray-headed, might forsweareforswear and out-face his Age, because no man, nor perhaps himselfe obserued when hee …
With rule
… speedy reparations. By the Iesuites argument, an aged decrepid man, all gray-headed, might forsweareforswear and out-face his Age, because no man, nor perhaps himselfe obserued when hee …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader
Printed
… theſe things, for whereas the Scribes and Phariſees had taught thus, Thou ſhalt not forſweareforswear thy ſelfe, hee ſaith, Sweare not at all. And whereas they thought by taking …
With rule
… theſe things, for whereas the Scribes and Phariſees had taught thus, Thou ſhalt not forſweareforswear thy ſelfe, hee ſaith, Sweare not at all. And whereas they thought by taking …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… counsell, we may wele breake that othe, and rather for the tyme of nede forsweareforswear the thynge, than for doubte of periury to runne into a greatter inconuenyente. For …
With rule
… counsell, we may wele breake that othe, and rather for the tyme of nede forsweareforswear the thynge, than for doubte of periury to runne into a greatter inconuenyente. For …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaue Peter, who did abide by it a while, but in the ende did forſweareforswear him. His father whom before he did attempt to intreat, now ſtandeth foorth taking …
With rule
… ſaue Peter, who did abide by it a while, but in the ende did forſweareforswear him. His father whom before he did attempt to intreat, now ſtandeth foorth taking …
John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · p. 39 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

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

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
ForsweareForswear.
With rule
ForsweareForswear.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
How a man doeth ForsweareForswear himselfe: Read the place.
With rule
How a man doeth ForsweareForswear himselfe: Read the place.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
195. b 10. Looke ForsweareForswear, and Oth.
With rule
195. b 10. Looke ForsweareForswear, and Oth.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

Printed
ForſweareForswear to others, what to her he'hath ſworne,
With rule
ForſweareForswear to others, what to her he'hath ſworne,
John Donne · Poems · p. 231 · Open in the reader