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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Caius (Dr.)
 
A French physician in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor.   1
       
“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.)   2
 


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