boyesboys
A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.
- Puritas changed it
- 1,388 times in 657 works
- Consistency
- 100% (1,388 of 1,388)
- Reach if approved
- ~1,459 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
- Agrees: boys
- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 1,389 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- None
- Taken into joins
- None
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,388 changes in 657 works, 100% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,388)
- Printed… Irelande, beynge at Rome about the yeare of our lorde .CCCCC. perceyued serten Englysh boyesboys to be lolde there openlye. He gaue the pryce of them, and sent them …With rule… Irelande, beynge at Rome about the yeare of our lorde .CCCCC. perceyued serten Englysh boyesboys to be lolde there openlye. He gaue the pryce of them, and sent them …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 23 · Open in the reader
- Printed… prayed to the diuell to sende him good lucke, that for money he admitted boyesboys to be bishops: He had rauished virgines, and straunge womē: He had made the …With rule… prayed to the diuell to sende him good lucke, that for money he admitted boyesboys to be bishops: He had rauished virgines, and straunge womē: He had made the …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 66 · Open in the reader
- PrintedIoynd with the voice of men; and breisting boyesboys,With ruleIoynd with the voice of men; and breisting boyesboys,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 40 · Open in the reader
- Printed… consultations, and determinations both of thy Princes, Peeres, and people that such hellish roaring BoyesBoys, and such damned crues may not once bee named within the territories where thy …With rule… consultations, and determinations both of thy Princes, Peeres, and people that such hellish roaring BoyesBoys, and such damned crues may not once bee named within the territories where thy …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 225 · Open in the reader
- Printed… though it had ben nothing else, but a simple and plaine Enterlude, to make boyesboys laugh at, and a litle to recreat heauie or sorrowfull hearts: for these matters …With rule… though it had ben nothing else, but a simple and plaine Enterlude, to make boyesboys laugh at, and a litle to recreat heauie or sorrowfull hearts: for these matters …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
- Printed… seene these principles and answeares learned by Gentlemen, Yeomen, Horsekeepers, Shepheardes, Carters, Milkemaides, Kitchen-boyesboys, & al in that houshold (where these orders were obserued) excepting three or foure whose …With rule… seene these principles and answeares learned by Gentlemen, Yeomen, Horsekeepers, Shepheardes, Carters, Milkemaides, Kitchen-boyesboys, & al in that houshold (where these orders were obserued) excepting three or foure whose …
Robert Openshaw · Short Questions And Answers Containing The Sum Of Christian Religion · Open in the reader
- Printed… deuoure the body of our Lord so broken in pieces, but also too deliuer boyesboys gooing too schoole the crustes and cromines of the leauinges for their breakefastes?With rule… deuoure the body of our Lord so broken in pieces, but also too deliuer boyesboys gooing too schoole the crustes and cromines of the leauinges for their breakefastes?
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 103 · Open in the reader
- Printed… him a kingly spirit and courage, so Athanasius his acting of a Byshop among BoyesBoys like himselfe in the like, is reported to haue giuen a graue Byshop that …With rule… him a kingly spirit and courage, so Athanasius his acting of a Byshop among BoyesBoys like himselfe in the like, is reported to haue giuen a graue Byshop that …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 120 · 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.