The following is an Abstract of his Will: "I Robert Calfe of Boston, being now in sound Body and Minde doe make this my last Will [and] appoint my well beloved Wife Executrix.
Another John Calfe has an Inscription to his Memory in St. Nicholas's Church, London, giving 1426 as the Year of his Decease.
And Abraham ran vnto his beastes and fett a calfe that was tendre and good/ and gaue it vnto a yonge man which made it redy attonce.
And he toke butter & mylcke and the calfe which he had prepared/ and sett it before them/ and stode hymselfe by them vnder the tree: and they ate.
Golden Calfe for their God, relapsed into the Idolatry of the Egyptians; from whom they had been so lately delivered.
The Israelites, when they worshipped the Calfe, did think they worshipped the God that brought them out of Egypt; and yet it was Idolatry, because they thought the Calfe either was that God, or had him in his belly.
The Calfe that Aaron made, Moses threw into the fire.
He wrote in like sort vnto queene Mawd about the same matter, making hir Samsons calfe (the better to bring his purpose to passe) as appeareth by the same letter here insuing.
And albeit they now and then twin, yet herein they seeme to come short of that commoditie which is looked for in other countries, to wit, in that they bring foorth most commonlie but one calfeat once.
In my time a cow hath risen from foure nobles to foure marks by this means, which notwithstanding were no great price if they did yearelie bring foorth more than one calfe a peece, as I heare they doo in other countries.
Ilets annexed to the same, as the Calfeof man on the south, the Pile on the west, and finallie S.
This calfe and the price was bruted in all places, and came to the knowledge of the mother of this yong man, who said vnto her sonne: "I haue a minde to eate some of the veale, now solde in the market.
Why then depart in peace, and let the childe wake her with crying, for the ewe that will not heare her Lambe when it baes, will neuer answere a calfe when he bleates Verges.
Bull Ioue sir, had an amiable low, And some such strange bull leapt your fathers Cow, A got a Calfe in that same noble feat, Much like to you, for you haue iust his bleat.
Sir, a word with you: I haue three pound, to free Mouldie and Bull-calfe Falst.
Then is sin strucke downe like an Oxe, and iniquities throate cut like a Calfe Hol.
Moone-calfe, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good Moone-calfe Cal.
It was a bruite part of him, to kill so Capitall a Calfe there.
In like sort there are diuers Ilets annexed to the same, as the [Sidenote: Calfe of man.
Germane harbour: but one that kept the kings heards of cattell receiued him into his house, and lodged him, and slue a calfe for his supper, which calfe after supper was ended, S.
In my time a cow hath risen from foure nobles to foure marks by this means, which notwithstanding were no great price if they did yearelie bring foorth more than one calfe a péece, as I heare they doo in other countries.
Calfe of man on the south, the Pile on the west, and finallie S.
He wrote in like sort vnto quéene Mawd about the same matter, making hir Samsons calfe (the better to bring his purpose to passe) as appeareth by the same letter here insuing.
And albeit they now and then twin, yet herein they séeme to come short of that commoditie which is looked for in other countries, to wit, in that they bring foorth most commonlie but one calfe at once.
Some beside affirme, that the Bées will not flye awaye, if that the dung of the first calfe of any Cowe, be smeared about the mouths of the hiues.
And within two or three dayes after, another Calfe was taken in such sorte that it turned round about, and did goe as if the backe were broken.
Nexte a Calfe was taken lame, the legg turning upward, which was a strange sight to them whoe did beholde the same.
Its source was "the first cow calfe that his Brown Cow should have.
Its source was “the first cow calfethat his Brown Cow should have.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calfe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
