Campbell (The lady Mary), daughter of the duke of Argyll.

The lady Caroline Campbell, sister of lady Mary.—­Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).

CAMPEADOR [Kam.pay.dor], the Cid, who was called Mio Cid el Campeador ("my lord the champion").  “Cid” is a corruption of said ("lord").

CAMPO-BASSO (The count of), an officer in the duke of Burgundy’s army, introduced by sir W. Scott in two novels, Quentin Durward and Anne of Geierstein, both laid in the time of Edward IV.

CANACE (3 syl.), daughter of Cambuscan, and the paragon of women.  Chaucer left the tale half told, but Spenser makes a crowd of suitors woo her.  Her brother Cambel or Camballo resolved that none should win his sister who did not first overthrow him in fight.  At length Triamond sought her hand, and was so nearly matched in fight with Camballo, that both would have been killed, if Cambina, daughter of the fairy Agape (3 syl.), had not interfered.  Cambina gave the wounded combatants nepenthe, which had the power of converting enmity to love; so the combatants ceased from fight, Camballo took the fair Cambina to wife, and Triamond married Canace.—­Chaucer, Squire’s Tale; Spenser, Faery Queen, iv. 3 (1596).

Canace’s Mirror, a mirror which told the inspectors if the persons on whom they set their affections would prove true or false.

Canace’s Ring.  The king of Araby and Ind sent Canace, daughter of Cambuscan (king of Sarra, in Tartary), a ring which enabled her to understand the language of birds, and to know the medical virtues of all herbs.—­Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ("The Squire’s Tale,” 1388).

CANDACE, negro cook in The Minister’s Wooing, by Harriet Beecher Stowe.  She reverences Dr. Hopkins, but is slow to admit his dogma of Imputed Sin in Consequence of Adam’s Transgression (1859).

CANDAULES (3 syl.), king of Lydia, who exposed the charms of his wife to Gyges.  The queen was so indignant that she employed Gyges to murder her husband.  She then married the assassin, who became king of Lydia, and reigned twenty-eight years (B.C. 716-688).

CANDAYA (The kingdom of), situate between the great Trapobana and the South Sea, a couple of leagues beyond cape Comorin.—­Cervantes, Don Quixote, II. iii. 4 (1615).

CANDIDE (2 syl.), the hero of Voltaire’s novel of the same name.  He believes that “all things are for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”

  Voltaire says “No.”  He tells you that Candide
  Found life most tolerable after meals. 
  Byron, Don Juan, v. 31 (1820).

CANDOUR (Mrs.), the beau-ideal of female backbiters.—­Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777).

CANIDIA, a Neapolitan, beloved by the poet Horace.  When she deserted him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by charms unsphere the moon.—­Horace, Epodes, v. and xvii.