Son of Cambuscan, and brother of Camʹbalo, who “won Theodʹora to wife.” It was in the “Squire’s Tale,” by Chaucer, but was never finished. (See Canace.)
“Call him up that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold,
Of Camball, and of Algarsife,
And who had Canace to wife.”
Milton: Il Penseroso.
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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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