calfe

• “All the Egiptians offer in sacrifice, neither cowe, ne cowe calfe, because they are hallowed to Isis their goddesse, but bulles and bulle calues, or oxen, and stieres.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “Which done, they goe round about the cowe and calfe, and then they giue somewhat to the poore which be alwayes there, and to the Bramane or priest they giue the cowe and calfe, and afterward goe to diuers of their idoles and offer money, and lie downe flat vpon the ground and kisse it diuers times, and then goe their way.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “When they be maried the man and the woman come to the water side, and there is an olde man which they call a Bramane, that is a priest, a cowe and a calfe, or a cowe with calfe.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “We tooke the King prisoner, who paide for his ransome a Cow and a fat calfe.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Then the man and the woman, cowe and calfe, and the olde man goe into the water together, and they giue the olde man a white cloth of foure yards long, and a basket crosse bound with diuers things in it: the cloth he laieth vpon the backe of the cowe, and then he taketh the cowe by the ende of the taile, and saieth certaine wordes: and she hath a copper or”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Siluer other some: but those of poorest rate Do weare no Shubs at all, but grosser gownes to sight, That reacheth downe beneath the calfe, and that Armacha hight: These are the Russies robes.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “When of the whole is vnderstãd a parte, as: Abraham set a calfe before them, for calues fleshe.”

  A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes

• “He doubtless knows that one of the earliest among our small stock of traditions about Shakespeare is that recorded by Aubrey as being derived from Stratford authority, that his father was a butcher, and that "when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he kill'd a calfe, he wold do it in a high style, and make a speech.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859

• “Its source was "the first cow calfe that his Brown Cow should have.”

  The Women Who Came in the Mayflower

• “¶ Luke had a calfe to holde his boke on hye. gl {or} youly”

  The Assemble of Goddes

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