The universities of Cambridge and Oxford; so called from the rivers on which they stand.
“May you, my Cam and Isis, preach it long,
‘The right divine of kings to govern wrong.ʹ”
Pope: Dunciad, iv. 187.
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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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