AS WISE AS WALTHAM’S CALF, phr. (old).—Very foolish.

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  d. 1529.  SKELTON, Colin Clout.

        AS WYSE AS WALTHAM’S CALF …
He can nothing smatter
Of logicke nor scole matter.

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  1567.  Disclosing of the great Bull [Harleian Miscellany, VII. 535]. Some running and gadding calves, WISER than WALTHAM’S CALFE that ranne nine miles to sucke a bull.

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