the river Humber.
“For by the river that whylome was hight
The ancien Abus … [was from]
Their chieftain, Humber, named aright.”
And Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 28, says:—
“For my princely name,
From Humber, king of Huns, as anciently it came.”
See Geoffrey’s Chronicles, Bk. ii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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