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Caius (Dr.)

A French physician in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor.

“The clipped English of Dr. Caius.”—Macaulay.

Caius College (Cambridge). Elevated by Dr. John Key (Caius), of Norwich, into a college, being previously only a hall called Gonville. Called Keys. (1557.)

 

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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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