Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3072 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prickespricks

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

Puritas changed it: 334 times in 228 works
Consistency: 99.4% (334 of 336)
Reach if approved: ~353 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pricks
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 336 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (334 changes in 228 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 334)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… should serve sinne, but for the greater part, they are thorns in the eyes & prickespricks in the sides of Gods Ministers & good people: these be the Knights of the …
With rule
… should serve sinne, but for the greater part, they are thorns in the eyes & prickespricks in the sides of Gods Ministers & good people: these be the Knights of the …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the weight they went ſlowly, they were whipt with whips full of iron prickespricks, that put them to exceeding great torment. Then they which before had beene rulers …
With rule
… with the weight they went ſlowly, they were whipt with whips full of iron prickespricks, that put them to exceeding great torment. Then they which before had beene rulers …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 345 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if ſoberly, and ſeriouſly conſidered, may ſerve as ſo many keene ſpurres, and ſharpened prickespricks to quicken and provoke you, to love, and to good workes: I have found …
With rule
… if ſoberly, and ſeriouſly conſidered, may ſerve as ſo many keene ſpurres, and ſharpened prickespricks to quicken and provoke you, to love, and to good workes: I have found …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… else will quite forsake you. When troubles, trialls, and temptations come, when stings and prickespricks of conscience, when pangs of sicknesse and of death shall come vpon you, (as …
With rule
… else will quite forsake you. When troubles, trialls, and temptations come, when stings and prickespricks of conscience, when pangs of sicknesse and of death shall come vpon you, (as …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 406 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their great puniſhment, ſaying; I will not driue them out, but they ſhall bee prickespricks in your ſides, and their gods ſhall bee a ſnare vnto you, and this …
With rule
… their great puniſhment, ſaying; I will not driue them out, but they ſhall bee prickespricks in your ſides, and their gods ſhall bee a ſnare vnto you, and this …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wilderneſſe Moab, in Paleſtina the Canannites, whom God reſerued and kept to bee prickespricks in their ſides. Iacob had his owne Laban, and Ioſeph had Potiphars wife in …
With rule
… the wilderneſſe Moab, in Paleſtina the Canannites, whom God reſerued and kept to bee prickespricks in their ſides. Iacob had his owne Laban, and Ioſeph had Potiphars wife in …
Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet to humble him that hee be not proude, God leaueth, as it were, prickespricks and thomes in his ſide, as he did to the Iſraelites, manifold infirmities, which …
With rule
… yet to humble him that hee be not proude, God leaueth, as it were, prickespricks and thomes in his ſide, as he did to the Iſraelites, manifold infirmities, which …
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the lamb to dare forth the lion; for a man to kick against the prickespricks, &c. There is no profit in such a course: for what gets the rebell …
With rule
… the lamb to dare forth the lion; for a man to kick against the prickespricks, &c. There is no profit in such a course: for what gets the rebell …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 142 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An ABC for Laymen A15621

Printed
PrickesPricks.
With rule
PrickesPricks.
Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 110 · Open in the reader