Chapter Capucinade to Care of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Carausius, the first British emperor (237–29 4). His full name was Marcus Aurelius Valerius Carausius, and as emperor of Britain he was accepted by Diocletian and Maximian; but after a vigorous reign of seven years, he was assassinated by Allectus, who succeeded him as “emperor of Britain.” (See Gibbon: Decline and Fall, etc., ii. 13.)

Cards. It is said that there never was a good hand of cards containing four clubs. Such a hand is called “The Devil’s Four-poster.”

Cards of Compliment. When it was customary to fold down part of an address card, the strict rule was this: Right hand bottom corner turned down meant a Personal call. Right hand top corner turned down meant Condolence. Left hand bottom corner turned down meant Congratulation.

Cardan (Jerômo) of Pavia (1501–1576), a great mathematician and astrologer. He professed to have a demon or familiar spirit, who revealed to him the secrets of nature.

What did your Cardan and your Ptolemy tell you? Your Messahalah and your Longomontanus [two astrologers], your harmony of chiromancy with astrology?—Congreve: Love for Love, iv. (1695).

Cardenio of And alusia, of opulent parents, fell in love with Lucinda, a lady of equal family and fortune, to whom he was form ally engaged. Don Fernando, his friend, however, prevailed on Lucinda’s father, by artifice, to break o ff the engagement and promise Lucinda to himself, “contrary to her wish, and in violation of every principl e of honour.” This drove Cardenio mad, and he haunted the Sierra Morena or Brown Mountain for about six months, as a maniac with lucid intervals. On the wedding day Lucinda swooned, and a letter informed the bridegroom that she was married to Cardenio. Next day she privately left her father’s house, and took refuge in a convent; but being abducted by don Fernando, she was carried to an inn, where Fernando found Dorothea his wife, and Cardenio the husband of Lucinda. All parties were now reconciled, and the two gentlemen paired respectively with their proper wives.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, I. iv. (1605).

Carduel or Kartel, Carlisle, the place where Merlin prepared the Round Table.

Care, described as a blacksmith, who “worked all night and day.” His bellows, says Spenser, are Pensiveness and Sighs.—Faerie Queene, iv. 5 (1596).