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His name is ftill perpetuated in Gonville and 

 Caius College at Cambridge, which, after its firft 

 foundation by Edmund de Gonville in 1348, was 

 refounded by Caius, to whom it owes even more 

 than to its original founder. A great portion of 

 the exifting College was built by Caius, and he 

 was for many years firft Fellow and then Mafter 

 of it. Caius College is ftill the medical College 

 of the Univerfity, and can in paft years reckon 

 many notable phyficians amongft its fons, efpecially 

 Harvey, the difcoverer of the circulation of the 

 blood. Perhaps even more honourable than this 

 is the diftinction Caius has obtained of being 

 alluded to in no obfcure manner by Shakefpeare. 

 " Mafter Doctor Caius, the renowned French 

 Phyfician," is one of the characters in "The Merry 

 Wives of Windfor" (1602) ; his fervants are Mrs. 

 Quickly and Rugby, while, characteriftically 

 enough, when angry with Sir Hugh, Shakefpeare 

 makes him fay, " By gar, he mall not have a ftone 

 to throw at his dog" (" Merry Wives of Windfor," 

 I., iv. 119). Here it may be remarked incident- 

 ally that Shakefpeare, like the Bible, never fays a 

 good word for the dog, in fpite of its fidelity and 

 ufefulnefs. 



The many divisions of his fubject which " that 

 prodigy of general erudition" (as Hallam calls 

 Gefner) was accuftomed to make, doubtlefs caufed 

 the plan to find favour in the eyes of his difciple, 

 Caius. As the archaeology of the dog ends with 

 his book, it is worth while giving an account of 

 it for the benefit of thofe dog-lovers who have 



