Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5446 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

plaiesplays

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it: 291 times in 167 works
Consistency: 83.1% (291 of 350)
Reach if approved: ~368 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: plays
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 350 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (291 changes in 167 works, 83.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 291)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
2. Filthy ſtage plaiesplays.
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2. Filthy ſtage plaiesplays.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… light of the candle till his finger be burnt, and so the reprobate-wicked plaiesplays with Hell fier, reputing it a fable, till at the last he comes to …
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… light of the candle till his finger be burnt, and so the reprobate-wicked plaiesplays with Hell fier, reputing it a fable, till at the last he comes to …
John Boys · The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Council of Laodicea, de conſecratione diſt. 5. cap. 37. and that which was decreed againſt Stage-plaiesplays in the third Councill of Carthage, de conſecrat. diſt. 2. cap. 96. and the canons of …
With rule
… Council of Laodicea, de conſecratione diſt. 5. cap. 37. and that which was decreed againſt Stage-plaiesplays in the third Councill of Carthage, de conſecrat. diſt. 2. cap. 96. and the canons of …
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
Fourthly, God is not off and one, hee plaiesplays not faſt and looſe: but whom once he iuſtifieth from ſinne hee neuer remembreth …
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Fourthly, God is not off and one, hee plaiesplays not faſt and looſe: but whom once he iuſtifieth from ſinne hee neuer remembreth …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… folke into his house, where the dead bodies bene watched, to make any māner plaiesplays, but pray for y^e soule. And al y^t there ought ells done, or thither …
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… folke into his house, where the dead bodies bene watched, to make any māner plaiesplays, but pray for y^e soule. And al y^t there ought ells done, or thither …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the flesh against the spirit: as reading of toyes and wanton bookes, seeing of plaiesplays and enterluds, wanton communication, foolish iesting, & effeminate thoughts and talking of couetousnes, which Paul …
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… the flesh against the spirit: as reading of toyes and wanton bookes, seeing of plaiesplays and enterluds, wanton communication, foolish iesting, & effeminate thoughts and talking of couetousnes, which Paul …
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cutting of another, and ſo ſhew them a bloudie play. Such were thoſe ſword-plaiesplays, in vſe amongſt the Romanes, wherein cruell ſpectacles were exhibited on each ſide in …
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… cutting of another, and ſo ſhew them a bloudie play. Such were thoſe ſword-plaiesplays, in vſe amongſt the Romanes, wherein cruell ſpectacles were exhibited on each ſide in …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the daye as the night, they spend in wanton lewd daunces, filthie talke, in plaiesplays, Enterludes, & the like lasciuious sportes tending vnto vice. Their crownes they vse too haue …
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… the daye as the night, they spend in wanton lewd daunces, filthie talke, in plaiesplays, Enterludes, & the like lasciuious sportes tending vnto vice. Their crownes they vse too haue …
Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (59)

28 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 17 are listed here. 31 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Golden Chain A09339

Printed
… the ground whereof are not the sleight of mans witte, but lotte alone. III. PlaiesPlays and enterludes, that stand in the representation of the vices and misdemeanour of the …
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… the ground whereof are not the sleight of mans witte, but lotte alone. III. PlaiesPlays and enterludes, that stand in the representation of the vices and misdemeanour of the …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 869 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Galatians 1-5 A09383

Printed
… foolish talking, &c. Eph. 5. 3. Here we are to be put in minde, that the PlaiesPlays (commonly in vse) ate to be banished out of all Christian societies. For they …
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… foolish talking, &c. Eph. 5. 3. Here we are to be put in minde, that the PlaiesPlays (commonly in vse) ate to be banished out of all Christian societies. For they …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 202 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount A09432

Printed
… a wanton eie, but a lasciuious tongue also. Secondly, the acting of all such PlaiesPlays and Comedies, the matter whereof, is the representation of the light behauiour of men …
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… a wanton eie, but a lasciuious tongue also. Secondly, the acting of all such PlaiesPlays and Comedies, the matter whereof, is the representation of the light behauiour of men …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 113 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

Printed
… Poets, or Actors, for these Idolatrous Imprecations, Prophane, and Pagan Oathes, or Heathenish Stage-PlaiesPlays, as he will surely doe at last,) what answere could they make? Can they …
With rule
… Poets, or Actors, for these Idolatrous Imprecations, Prophane, and Pagan Oathes, or Heathenish Stage-PlaiesPlays, as he will surely doe at last,) what answere could they make? Can they …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Laicks: yet they intended not to give anie libertie to Lay men, to haunt PlaiesPlays or theatres; for as they inhibit Ministers themselves from PlaiesPlays, so they charge them …
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… Laicks: yet they intended not to give anie libertie to Lay men, to haunt PlaiesPlays or theatres; for as they inhibit Ministers themselves from PlaiesPlays, so they charge them …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 647 · Open in the reader
Printed
… infamy of acting and frequenting Stage-playes, and of the intollerable mischievous qualities of PlaiesPlays themselves which thus strangely vitiate their Spectators: and withall should cause all husbands, all …
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… infamy of acting and frequenting Stage-playes, and of the intollerable mischievous qualities of PlaiesPlays themselves which thus strangely vitiate their Spectators: and withall should cause all husbands, all …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 662 · Open in the reader
Printed
… others. Secondly, they were no Spectacles of lasciviousnesse, vanitie, follie, mirth, or wickednesse, as PlaiesPlays and Plaiers are; but of grace, of faith, of pietie, patience, constancy, martyrdome, and …
With rule
… others. Secondly, they were no Spectacles of lasciviousnesse, vanitie, follie, mirth, or wickednesse, as PlaiesPlays and Plaiers are; but of grace, of faith, of pietie, patience, constancy, martyrdome, and …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 726 · Open in the reader
Printed
… although some vitious histrionicall Roman Emperours, as Nero, Caligula, Heliogabalus, Commodus, and others, reduced PlaiesPlays & Plaiers, yet the gravest Romā Emperors, Senators, Philosophers did still oppose and reexile them …
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… although some vitious histrionicall Roman Emperours, as Nero, Caligula, Heliogabalus, Commodus, and others, reduced PlaiesPlays & Plaiers, yet the gravest Romā Emperors, Senators, Philosophers did still oppose and reexile them …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 730 · Open in the reader

The Overthrow of Stage Plays A10335

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THe vanitie and vnlawfulnesse of PlaiesPlays and Enterludes hath bene often spoken against by the holy men of God. The …
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THe vanitie and vnlawfulnesse of PlaiesPlays and Enterludes hath bene often spoken against by the holy men of God. The …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · Open in the reader
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This treatise therfore of that thrice Reuerend man Maiste… D. Rainoldes, against stage PlaiesPlays (beeing a notable looking glasse for such cold Christians as these, and comming from …
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This treatise therfore of that thrice Reuerend man Maiste… D. Rainoldes, against stage PlaiesPlays (beeing a notable looking glasse for such cold Christians as these, and comming from …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · Open in the reader
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… Maister Rainoldes his seuerall aunsweres and replies) hath saied more for the defense of PlaiesPlays then can bee well saied againe by any man that shall succeede or come …
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… Maister Rainoldes his seuerall aunsweres and replies) hath saied more for the defense of PlaiesPlays then can bee well saied againe by any man that shall succeede or come …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · Open in the reader

A Strange Vineyard in Palestine A10926

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And thus doe vainer Poets, who by their laſciuious rymes, luftfull Sonnets, PlaiesPlays and Enterſudes, bring ſhame vnto the Art, diſgrace to Poeſie, and diſhonour to the …
With rule
And thus doe vainer Poets, who by their laſciuious rymes, luftfull Sonnets, PlaiesPlays and Enterſudes, bring ſhame vnto the Art, diſgrace to Poeſie, and diſhonour to the …
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 26 · Open in the reader

The Wild Vine A10928

Printed
And thus doe vainer Poets, who by their laſciuious tymes, luſtfull Sonnets, PlaiesPlays and Enterludes, bring ſhame vnto the Art, diſgrace to Poeſie, and diſhonour to the …
With rule
And thus doe vainer Poets, who by their laſciuious tymes, luſtfull Sonnets, PlaiesPlays and Enterludes, bring ſhame vnto the Art, diſgrace to Poeſie, and diſhonour to the …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 26 · Open in the reader

The State of True Happiness A16317

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… and therefore they seeke to refresh themselues amid their treasures, honors and sports; at PlaiesPlays, in Tauernes with merrie companie, and many other such miserable comforters; nay they had …
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… and therefore they seeke to refresh themselues amid their treasures, honors and sports; at PlaiesPlays, in Tauernes with merrie companie, and many other such miserable comforters; nay they had …
Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 46 · Open in the reader

The Government of the Tongue A23740

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… ludicrous sort of Profaners, who use the Scripture as they do odd ends of PlaiesPlays, to furnish out their Jests; clothe all their little impertinent conceits in its Language …
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… ludicrous sort of Profaners, who use the Scripture as they do odd ends of PlaiesPlays, to furnish out their Jests; clothe all their little impertinent conceits in its Language …
Richard Allestree · The Government of the Tongue · p. 27 · Open in the reader

The World Possessed with Devils A68845

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… in a Tragedy whiche was plaied, as wee at this daie doe plaie ſtage PlaiesPlays: wherein Fuſe was one of the Players, & plaied the part of Ilion the daughter …
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… in a Tragedy whiche was plaied, as wee at this daie doe plaie ſtage PlaiesPlays: wherein Fuſe was one of the Players, & plaied the part of Ilion the daughter …
Pierre Viret · The World Possessed with Devils · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

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PlaiesPlays ſome ſoft boy with thee, oh there wants yet
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PlaiesPlays ſome ſoft boy with thee, oh there wants yet
John Donne · Poems · p. 167 · Open in the reader