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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1904 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

toyestoys

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

Puritas changed it
1,199 times in 630 works
Consistency
93.8% (1,199 of 1,278)
Reach if approved
~1,343 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: toys
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,278 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,199 changes in 630 works, 93.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,199)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … They neither hold them to the ſincerity of Gods ſeruice, not to the meere toyestoys and fooleries of the heathen; but frame to themſelues a mingle mangle out of …
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    … They neither hold them to the ſincerity of Gods ſeruice, not to the meere toyestoys and fooleries of the heathen; but frame to themſelues a mingle mangle out of …

    Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 207 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … weake definitions, (lest wee worship the inuentions of our own hearts, and follow the toyestoys of foolish braines:) but that we may speake rightly, iudge truely, and to the …
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    … weake definitions, (lest wee worship the inuentions of our own hearts, and follow the toyestoys of foolish braines:) but that we may speake rightly, iudge truely, and to the …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 50 · Open in the reader

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    How many toyestoys are there in theirs that are not touched at all in Iustine? And againe …
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    How many toyestoys are there in theirs that are not touched at all in Iustine? And againe …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 113 · Open in the reader

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    … blyndnes of the fleſhe wyteout the manifeſt worde of God to inuent ſuch fond toyestoys of your own brayne as be manyfeſt dexogation to the ſacrate majeſty of the …
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    … blyndnes of the fleſhe wyteout the manifeſt worde of God to inuent ſuch fond toyestoys of your own brayne as be manyfeſt dexogation to the ſacrate majeſty of the …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader

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    … it, no Errors stray it, nor Terrours fray it: it is not deluded with toyestoys, nor deferred with ioyes. It …arries not with the young man in the Gospell …
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    … it, no Errors stray it, nor Terrours fray it: it is not deluded with toyestoys, nor deferred with ioyes. It …arries not with the young man in the Gospell …

    Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … downe by me as intended to be brought vpon this land you call childish toyestoys, such as one would not imagine that a man of Sir Francis name, house …
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    … downe by me as intended to be brought vpon this land you call childish toyestoys, such as one would not imagine that a man of Sir Francis name, house …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 206 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſuch perhaps, as in this itching-eared generation, (wherin the moſt do more affect toyestoys then truth, and a flouriſh of words, rather then ſubſtance of matter) few will …
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    … ſuch perhaps, as in this itching-eared generation, (wherin the moſt do more affect toyestoys then truth, and a flouriſh of words, rather then ſubſtance of matter) few will …

    Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · Open in the reader

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    … preſence at Maſs very lawfull, though it be not inforced; and for ſuch vaine toyestoys they eſteeme them as they are; if a man be compelled, who will hazard …
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    … preſence at Maſs very lawfull, though it be not inforced; and for ſuch vaine toyestoys they eſteeme them as they are; if a man be compelled, who will hazard …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 285 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (79)

30 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 49 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted A02886

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    ToyesToys of the Papystes. 5. 6. 33. 70. 74.
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    ToyesToys of the Papystes. 5. 6. 33. 70. 74.

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

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    … vseth. And they say that Apollonius of Thianey prophesied after yt maner. These are ToyesToys to bee laughed at, rather then worthie to bee answered. And let euery man …
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    … vseth. And they say that Apollonius of Thianey prophesied after yt maner. These are ToyesToys to bee laughed at, rather then worthie to bee answered. And let euery man …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 445 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Romans 8-11 A09031

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    … confirmed by the Scriptures: when we ſuffer for our owne opinions and fancies, for ToyesToys and Quiddities, it is not to be called Perſecution, but rather the Iudgement of …
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    … confirmed by the Scriptures: when we ſuffer for our owne opinions and fancies, for ToyesToys and Quiddities, it is not to be called Perſecution, but rather the Iudgement of …

    Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 138 · Open in the reader

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

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    … these Fashions, Lock…s, and Cultures s…m… such Niciti…s, Tr…fl…s, ToyesToys, or nee…lesse scrupul…sities vnto any, as may admit an easie disp…nsation …
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    … these Fashions, Lock…s, and Cultures s…m… such Niciti…s, Tr…fl…s, ToyesToys, or nee…lesse scrupul…sities vnto any, as may admit an easie disp…nsation …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · Open in the reader

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    … and dandle with small and pettie Vices, yea, though it bee but with Vanities, ToyesToys, and idle Fashions: they will quickly draw vs on to scandalous, great, and hainous …
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    … and dandle with small and pettie Vices, yea, though it bee but with Vanities, ToyesToys, and idle Fashions: they will quickly draw vs on to scandalous, great, and hainous …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · Open in the reader

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    … of these Lasciuiou…, …nd Fantastique vanities: they are but Moderne, and new-inu…nted ToyesToys, and Vanities, with which the Church, and Saints of God, in former ages were …
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    … of these Lasciuiou…, …nd Fantastique vanities: they are but Moderne, and new-inu…nted ToyesToys, and Vanities, with which the Church, and Saints of God, in former ages were …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 34 · Open in the reader

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    … arguments haue beene produced, to prooue them to be Odious, Lasciuious, Vncomely, and Vnlawfull, ToyesToys, and Vanities; which bring no glory at all to God, nor Ornament, Grace, or …
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    … arguments haue beene produced, to prooue them to be Odious, Lasciuious, Vncomely, and Vnlawfull, ToyesToys, and Vanities; which bring no glory at all to God, nor Ornament, Grace, or …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 59 · Open in the reader

A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven A14380

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    Lifes, ToyesToys and Troubles, Satans craft and Power,
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    Lifes, ToyesToys and Troubles, Satans craft and Power,

    John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader

Britains Remembrancer A15627

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    SIR, no such ToyesToys as those doe make me fearfull▪
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    SIR, no such ToyesToys as those doe make me fearfull▪

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 5 · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

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    As, not to want thoſe ToyesToys, for which wee crye:
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    As, not to want thoſe ToyesToys, for which wee crye:

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 88 · Open in the reader

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    Delight not Archers; tyet, ſuch uſeleſſe ToyesToys
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    Delight not Archers; tyet, ſuch uſeleſſe ToyesToys

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 164 · Open in the reader

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

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    They are ToyesToys not worth my sorrow:
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    They are ToyesToys not worth my sorrow:

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

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    For, these ToyesToys that make you gay,
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    For, these ToyesToys that make you gay,

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

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    Yea, those ToyesToys so much affected,
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    Yea, those ToyesToys so much affected,

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

Poetical Fragments A26987

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    And taken up with Dreams and ToyesToys?
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    And taken up with Dreams and ToyesToys?

    Richard Baxter · Poetical Fragments · p. 59 · Open in the reader

The Saints Everlasting Rest A27017

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    … back and say, Are all our merry Meetings, our Feasts, our Playes, our vvanton ToyesToys, our Christmas Games, and Revels come to this? Then those Eares vvhich vvere vvont …
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    … back and say, Are all our merry Meetings, our Feasts, our Playes, our vvanton ToyesToys, our Christmas Games, and Revels come to this? Then those Eares vvhich vvere vvont …

    Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 325 · Open in the reader

Divine Passions Piously and Pathetically Expressed A32308

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    ToyesToys proffer'd too by ſtrangers, and our foes,
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    ToyesToys proffer'd too by ſtrangers, and our foes,

    Edward Calver · Divine Passions Piously and Pathetically Expressed · p. 44 · Open in the reader

The Soul of Man A39675

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    … worth of Glass Beads and Pendents, for a Tun of Gold? A few Tinsell ToyesToys, for as many rich Diamonds? Mercatura est amittere, ut lucreris, that is true Merchandize …
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    … worth of Glass Beads and Pendents, for a Tun of Gold? A few Tinsell ToyesToys, for as many rich Diamonds? Mercatura est amittere, ut lucreris, that is true Merchandize …

    John Flavel · The Soul of Man · p. 304 · Open in the reader

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    … Gold and Diamonds, who were content to exchange them for Glass-Beads and Tinsil ToyesToys. Many fair seasons are forced or cheated out of our hands by the importunity …
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    … Gold and Diamonds, who were content to exchange them for Glass-Beads and Tinsil ToyesToys. Many fair seasons are forced or cheated out of our hands by the importunity …

    John Flavel · The Soul of Man · p. 451 · Open in the reader

Sermons Volume 4 A51840

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    3. Dry up these swimming ToyesToys and Fancies with the flame of Heavenly Love. Love unites the Heart, and where …
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    3. Dry up these swimming ToyesToys and Fancies with the flame of Heavenly Love. Love unites the Heart, and where …

    Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 4 · p. 620 · Open in the reader

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    … Lust? My work is to discerne the Lords Body, not to think of Worldly ToyesToys; Is this to remember and fruitfully to insist upon his Death? Look as Christ …
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    … Lust? My work is to discerne the Lords Body, not to think of Worldly ToyesToys; Is this to remember and fruitfully to insist upon his Death? Look as Christ …

    Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 4 · p. 623 · Open in the reader

Echos from the Sixth Trumpet A66752

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    Let not thoſe fooliſh ToyesToys who do beſot
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    Let not thoſe fooliſh ToyesToys who do beſot

    George Wither · Echos from the Sixth Trumpet · p. 142 · Open in the reader

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    … leave Gentlemen; when ſeriouſneſs takes not effect, perhaps trifling may. Every man hath ſome ToyesToys in his head; and I have too many. One will now diſcover it ſelf …
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    … leave Gentlemen; when ſeriouſneſs takes not effect, perhaps trifling may. Every man hath ſome ToyesToys in his head; and I have too many. One will now diſcover it ſelf …

    George Wither · Echos from the Sixth Trumpet · p. 162 · Open in the reader

A Vindication of Godliness A74976

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    … wantons of the earth are dealing about faſhions, and feaſts, and ſports, trading in ToyesToys, Feathers, Apes, and Peacocks; Chriſtians are trading in Promiſes and Prayer, in Faith and …
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    … wantons of the earth are dealing about faſhions, and feaſts, and ſports, trading in ToyesToys, Feathers, Apes, and Peacocks; Chriſtians are trading in Promiſes and Prayer, in Faith and …

    Richard Alleine · A Vindication of Godliness · p. 162 · Open in the reader

A Treatise of Conversion A76218

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    … this. That I have not trifled with you, and filled your ears with witty ToyesToys and strange Matters. I hope you will easily pardon me, when you have considered …
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    … this. That I have not trifled with you, and filled your ears with witty ToyesToys and strange Matters. I hope you will easily pardon me, when you have considered …

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Conversion · p. 209 · Open in the reader

Christs Justification of Marys Choice A76226

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    … to them about Cards, or Plays, or fine Cloaths, or Laces, or greater worldly ToyesToys than these. Yea, if you were taken up your selves about your own Ornaments …
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    … to them about Cards, or Plays, or fine Cloaths, or Laces, or greater worldly ToyesToys than these. Yea, if you were taken up your selves about your own Ornaments …

    Richard Baxter · Christs Justification of Marys Choice · p. 33 · Open in the reader

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    … But what necessity have you to waste thoughts and times about your many unprofitable ToyesToys? Martha had some excuse, but you have none.
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    … But what necessity have you to waste thoughts and times about your many unprofitable ToyesToys? Martha had some excuse, but you have none.

    Richard Baxter · Christs Justification of Marys Choice · p. 36 · Open in the reader

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    … can do it by lawful means. 2. It oft falls out that not only needless ToyesToys and Vanities, but some downright great Sins, cannot be hindred effectually without so great …
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    … can do it by lawful means. 2. It oft falls out that not only needless ToyesToys and Vanities, but some downright great Sins, cannot be hindred effectually without so great …

    Richard Baxter · Christs Justification of Marys Choice · p. 53 · Open in the reader

The Divine Right of Church Government and Excommunication A92138

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    … from the reverend Authority and Dignity of the Scripture: ſo Ceremonies pag. 46. are but ToyesToys, unworthy to be written with Scripture, but p. 44. They have the ſelf ſame force …
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    … from the reverend Authority and Dignity of the Scripture: ſo Ceremonies pag. 46. are but ToyesToys, unworthy to be written with Scripture, but p. 44. They have the ſelf ſame force …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Divine Right of Church Government and Excommunication · p. 70 · Open in the reader

A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath A96785

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    Let not thoſe fooliſh ToyesToys, who do beſot
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    Let not thoſe fooliſh ToyesToys, who do beſot

    George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 198 · Open in the reader