Chapter Calydon to Camilla of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Cambalu, the royal residence of the cham of Cathay (a province of Tartary). Milton speaks of “Cambalu, seat of Cathayan Can.”—Paradise Lost, xi. 388 (1665).

Cambalue, spoken of by Marco Polo, is Pekin.

Cambel. (See Canace, p. 174.)

Cambina, daughter of the fairy Agapê. (See Canace, p. 174.)

Cambria, Wales. According to legend, it is so called from Camber, the son of Brute. This legendary king divided his dominions at death between his three sons: Locrin had the southern part, hence called Loegria (England); Camber the west (Wales); and Albanact the north, called Albania (Scotland).

From Cambria’s curse, from Cambria’s tears.
   —Gray: The Bard (1757).

Cambrian, Welsh, pertaining to Cambria or Wales.

Cambridge. Cam is a modern corrupt form of Granta, as the river Cam was anciently called. The transition is Granta, turned by the Normans into Caunter, whence Canter, Can’ or Cam.

Our“Count” is the French Comte.

Cambridge University Boat Crew. Colours: light blue.

Cambridge on the Charles, contains Harvard University, founded 1636 at Cambridge on the river Charles (Massachusetts), and endowed in 1639 by the Rev. John Harvard.

A theologian from the school
Of Cambridge on the Charles, was there.
   —Longfellow: The Wayside Inn (prelude).

Cambridge University, said to have been founded by Sebert or Segbert king of Essex, the reputed founder of St. Peter’s, Westminster (604).

Wise Segbert, worthy praise, preparing us the seat Of famous Cambridge first, then with endowments great,

The Muses to maintain, those sisters thither brought.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xi. (1613).

Cambuscan, king of Sarra, in the land of Tartary the model of all royal virtues. His wife was Elfeta; his two sons Algarsife and Camballo; and his daughter Canacê. Chaucer accents the last syllable, but Milton erroneously throws the accent on the middle syllable. Thus Chaucer says—

And so befell that when this Cambuscan…And again—

This Cambuscan, of which I have you told…
   —Squire’s Tale.

But Milton, in Il Penseroso, says—

His who left half-told
The story of Cambuscan bold.

The accent might be preserved by a slight change, thus—

Him who left of old
The tale of Cambuscanhalf-told.

Cambuscan had three presents sent him by the king of Araby and Ind: (I) a horse of brass, which would within a single day transport its rider to the most distant region of the world, (2) a trenchant sword, which would cut through the stoutest armour, and heal a sword-wound by simply striking it with the flat of the