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Canute or Cnut and Edmund Ironside. William of Malmes bury says: When Cnut and Edmund were ready for their sixth battle in Gloucestershire, it was arranged between them to decide their respective claims by single combat. Cnut was a small man, and Edmund both tall and strong; so Cnut said to his adversary, “We both lay claim to the kingdom in right of our fathers; let us, therefore, divide it and make peace;” and they did so.

Canutus of the two that furthest was from hope…
Cries, “Noble Edmund, hold! Let us the land divide.”…and all aloud do cry,
“Courageous kings, divide! “Twere pity such should die.”
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xii. (1613).Canute’s Bird, the knot, a corruption of “Knut,” the Cinclus bellonii, of which king Canute was extremely fond.

The knot, that callëd was Canutus’ bird of old,
Of that great king of Danes, his name that still doth hold,
His appetite to please…from Denmark hither brought.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xxv. (1622).

N. B.—There are thirty “songs” in the Polyolbion, from 19 to 30 being of the date 1622.

Canynge (Sir William) is represented in the Rowley Romance as a rich, God-fearing mercha nt, devoting much money to the Church, and much to literature. He was, in fact, a Mæcenas, of princely hospitality, living in the Red House. The priest Rowley was his “Horace.”—Chatterton (1752–1770).

Caora, inhabited by men “whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.” (See Blemmyes, p. 127.)

On that branch which is called Caora are [sic] a nation of people whose heades appeare not above their shoulders. They are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouthes in the middle of their breasts.—Hackluyt: Voyage (1598).

Raleigh, in his Description of Guiana (1596), also gives an account of men whose “heads do grow beneath their shoulders.”

Capability Brown, Launcelot Brown, the English landscape gardener (1715–1783).

Capaneus, a man of gigantic stature, enormous strength, and headlong valour. He was impious to the gods, but faithful to his friends. Capaneus was one of the seven heroes who marched against Thebes (I syl), and was struck dead by a thunderbolt for declaring that not Jupiter himself should prevent his scaling the city walls.

The “Mezentius ” of Virgil and Tasso’s “Argantê” are similar characters; but the Greek Capaneus exceeds Mezentius in physical daring and Argantê in impiety.

Cape of Storms, now called the Cape of Good Hope. It was Bartholomew Diaz who called it Cabo Tormentoso (1486), and king Juan II. who changed the name. (See Black Sea, p. 124.)

Capitan, a boastful, swaggering coward, in several French farces and comedies prior to the time of Molière.

Caponsacchi (Giuseppe), the young priest under whose protection Pompilia fled from her husband to Rome. The husband and his friends said the elopement was criminal; but Pompilia, Caponsacchi, and their friends maintained that the young canon simply acted the part of a chivalrous protector of a young woman who was married at 15, and who fled from a brutal husband who illtreated her.—R. Browning: The Ring and the Book (1368).

Capstern (Captain), captain of an East Indiaman, at Madras.—Sir W. Scott: The Surgeon’s Daughter (time, George II.).

Captain, Manuel Comnenus of Trebizond (1120, 1143–1180).