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Brewer's: Cam and Isis
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.' ”
Pope: Dunciad; iv. 187.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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