Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3643 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

herbeherb

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

Puritas changed it: 496 times in 224 works
Consistency: 100% (496 of 496)
Reach if approved: ~521 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: herb
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 496 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (496 changes in 224 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 496)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… good fruite and herbes be ſpoiled, onely here and there a roote of an herbeherb, but all the reſt is like a wilderneſſe, then it is time to digge …
With rule
… good fruite and herbes be ſpoiled, onely here and there a roote of an herbeherb, but all the reſt is like a wilderneſſe, then it is time to digge …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ye clene for the wordes sake which I haue spokē vnto you, Itē, Neyther herbeherb nor emplasture hathe healed thē, but thy worde, o Lord, y^• healeth al thinges …
With rule
… ye clene for the wordes sake which I haue spokē vnto you, Itē, Neyther herbeherb nor emplasture hathe healed thē, but thy worde, o Lord, y^• healeth al thinges …
Thomas Becon · The Castle of Comfort · Open in the reader
Printed
… there as it falleth out, ſucketh out ſome ſvveetneſſe out of euerie floure and herbeherb vvhereon she ſitteth: ſo your Lordship looking into the volume of the ſacred Scripture …
With rule
… there as it falleth out, ſucketh out ſome ſvveetneſſe out of euerie floure and herbeherb vvhereon she ſitteth: ſo your Lordship looking into the volume of the ſacred Scripture …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · Open in the reader
Printed
… the thing to passe. If a man take a …, or a medicine, or an herbeherb, and vs… i… … wound, or a disease, once, or twice, or thrice, and, if …
With rule
… the thing to passe. If a man take a …, or a medicine, or an herbeherb, and vs… i… … wound, or a disease, once, or twice, or thrice, and, if …
John Preston · The Saints Daily Exercise · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ch. 2. 7. 14.) from whence it seemeth the Gr. have borrowed Amorgis, the name of an herbeherb or reed, which is used to die purple. This also is a Princely colour …
With rule
… Ch. 2. 7. 14.) from whence it seemeth the Gr. have borrowed Amorgis, the name of an herbeherb or reed, which is used to die purple. This also is a Princely colour …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vp our wounds, to temper a remedy of his owne heart bloud, when no herbeherb or simple was left in heauen or earth for our cure: Now we in …
With rule
… vp our wounds, to temper a remedy of his owne heart bloud, when no herbeherb or simple was left in heauen or earth for our cure: Now we in …
Thomas Taylor · The Practice of Repentance · p. 388 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Christs seamlesse coat, vpon so small occasion? If the controuerted points be like herbeherb Iohn in the pot, that may be in, or out, without perill at all …
With rule
… in Christs seamlesse coat, vpon so small occasion? If the controuerted points be like herbeherb Iohn in the pot, that may be in, or out, without perill at all …
Daniel Featley · A Second Parallel · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of many people, as thee dewe frome thee Lorde, as the droppes vppon the herbeherb, whyche looketh for no mā neyther truſteth in the chyldren of menne.
With rule
… of many people, as thee dewe frome thee Lorde, as the droppes vppon the herbeherb, whyche looketh for no mā neyther truſteth in the chyldren of menne.
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.