Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2015 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

foxefox

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

Puritas changed it: 590 times in 289 works
Consistency: 99.1% (590 of 595)
Reach if approved: ~625 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fox
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 595 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (590 changes in 289 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 590)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The foxefox doe roome, & range,
With rule
The foxefox doe roome, & range,
William Loe · Songs of Zion · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtumble, if God give them not leave, as Chriſt ſaid concerning Herod, tell that foxefox, I muſt walke to day, & to morrow, untill the third day, which is appointed …
With rule
… ſtumble, if God give them not leave, as Chriſt ſaid concerning Herod, tell that foxefox, I muſt walke to day, & to morrow, untill the third day, which is appointed …
John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
The miracles reported by Master FoxeFox: the shamelesse beast, when he cannot denye, being testified by witnesses: aboue all exception …
With rule
The miracles reported by Master FoxeFox: the shamelesse beast, when he cannot denye, being testified by witnesses: aboue all exception …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… called Poenitentiarius Asini, The Asses Confessor; wherein is mentioned this Fable. The wolfe, the foxefox, and the asse come to shrift together, to doe penance. The wolfe confesseth himselfe …
With rule
… called Poenitentiarius Asini, The Asses Confessor; wherein is mentioned this Fable. The wolfe, the foxefox, and the asse come to shrift together, to doe penance. The wolfe confesseth himselfe …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… root of the Heart. Hence Sathan directs his malicious strength against the Heart. The foxefox doth gripe the necke, the mastiffe flies at the throat, and the Ferret nippes …
With rule
… root of the Heart. Hence Sathan directs his malicious strength against the Heart. The foxefox doth gripe the necke, the mastiffe flies at the throat, and the Ferret nippes …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
That neyther foxefox nor vermyne,
With rule
That neyther foxefox nor vermyne,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… circumſtances: but the matter coming to further ſcanning, it was found, that the wily foxefox did it onely to couer his owne deformitie, which (if to be without tailes …
With rule
… circumſtances: but the matter coming to further ſcanning, it was found, that the wily foxefox did it onely to couer his owne deformitie, which (if to be without tailes …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 206 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dylygente as ye haue bene to handle the wolfe, as you haue done the foxefox, to keepe out the denyll, as to cast out the deuyll: then shall the …
With rule
… dylygente as ye haue bene to handle the wolfe, as you haue done the foxefox, to keepe out the denyll, as to cast out the deuyll: then shall the …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached Third Sunday in Lent · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

Printed
… giue them lieue, Euseb. lib. 7. cap. 30. Func. Chron. Here I see that D. I. FOXEFOX writer of the booke of martyres taketh lieue of VINCENTIVS martyrologie. If others had …
With rule
… giue them lieue, Euseb. lib. 7. cap. 30. Func. Chron. Here I see that D. I. FOXEFOX writer of the booke of martyres taketh lieue of VINCENTIVS martyrologie. If others had …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader
Printed
… of DECIVS, and martyred vnder VALERIAN, Nazianz, in laudem Cypriani. The worthy D. I. FOXEFOX thinketh that NAZIANZEN commendeth another Bishop of that same name, borne in Antiochia and …
With rule
… of DECIVS, and martyred vnder VALERIAN, Nazianz, in laudem Cypriani. The worthy D. I. FOXEFOX thinketh that NAZIANZEN commendeth another Bishop of that same name, borne in Antiochia and …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader

The Dead Yet Speaking A40646

Printed
IOHN FOXEFOX.
With rule
IOHN FOXEFOX.
Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 377 · Open in the reader