Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2472 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

payespays

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

Puritas changed it: 469 times in 291 works
Consistency: 97.9% (469 of 479)
Reach if approved: ~503 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pays
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 479 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (469 changes in 291 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 469)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and worship Iehouah the true God alone, (for the euent shewed the contrary within 40. payespays) but shew what they ought to doe; but the words are a coms mandement …
With rule
… and worship Iehouah the true God alone, (for the euent shewed the contrary within 40. payespays) but shew what they ought to doe; but the words are a coms mandement …
George Walker · Disputation Between Walker and a Popish Priest · Open in the reader
Printed
… any other answer, than onely that same that your selfe bringeth with you Dead payespays, you know well inough will do little sonn… in time of need. You bring …
With rule
… any other answer, than onely that same that your selfe bringeth with you Dead payespays, you know well inough will do little sonn… in time of need. You bring …
Edmund Bunny · A Brief Answer · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not to runne quicke to the Deuill of an errand, so gaine sends him, & payespays him for his paines. He hath a short conscience, and a large damnation. He …
With rule
… not to runne quicke to the Deuill of an errand, so gaine sends him, & payespays him for his paines. He hath a short conscience, and a large damnation. He …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… why it was counted a Curſe in Iſrael, to be barren; for he that payespays not his Vowes to God, in the preſence of his people, may well be …
With rule
… why it was counted a Curſe in Iſrael, to be barren; for he that payespays not his Vowes to God, in the preſence of his people, may well be …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
… called purchaſing. As a man cannot have commodities unleſſe hee purchaſe them, unleſſe hee payespays for them: juſt ſo it is here; wee cannot have theſe, unleſſe wee buy …
With rule
… called purchaſing. As a man cannot have commodities unleſſe hee purchaſe them, unleſſe hee payespays for them: juſt ſo it is here; wee cannot have theſe, unleſſe wee buy …
Thomas Hooker · The Pattern of Perfection Exhibited in Gods Image on Adam · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preaching Miniſter in an ignorant Congregation, traines up ſixe poor children at the School, payespays for their teaching, and cloathes them once a yeere, not with ordinary old and …
With rule
… preaching Miniſter in an ignorant Congregation, traines up ſixe poor children at the School, payespays for their teaching, and cloathes them once a yeere, not with ordinary old and …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… endure for ouer, Psal. 112. God will not put him out of his Farme that payespays his Rent so well, but blesse his stocke and store, his crop and increase …
With rule
… endure for ouer, Psal. 112. God will not put him out of his Farme that payespays his Rent so well, but blesse his stocke and store, his crop and increase …
John Rogers · A Treatise of Love · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tell a man, for sins of the body, God punisheth in the body he payespays men home, in their owne coyne, what measure a man measureth to others shall …
With rule
… tell a man, for sins of the body, God punisheth in the body he payespays men home, in their owne coyne, what measure a man measureth to others shall …
Richard Sibbes · The Riches of Mercy · p. 34 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

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

The Purple Island A00977

Printed
PayesPays tribute to his King, the mantling stream
With rule
PayesPays tribute to his King, the mantling stream
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Virtues History A11081

Printed
PayesPays desperate his soules vnmatched price:
With rule
PayesPays desperate his soules vnmatched price:
Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader

The Weavers Pocket-Book A33985

Printed
He Buyes, and often PayesPays too dear:
With rule
He Buyes, and often PayesPays too dear:
John Collinges · The Weavers Pocket-Book · p. 46 · Open in the reader

The Annals of the World A64619

Printed
PayesPays the tribute Antonius had commanded of him. A. M. 3972
With rule
PayesPays the tribute Antonius had commanded of him. A. M. 3972
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · Open in the reader

A Christian Library A67744

Printed
PayesPays what he owes duly,
With rule
PayesPays what he owes duly,
Richard Younge · A Christian Library · p. 51 · Open in the reader

The Prevention of Poverty A67765

Printed
PayesPays what he owes duly,
With rule
PayesPays what he owes duly,
Richard Younge · The Prevention of Poverty · p. 51 · Open in the reader