E’en Scipio, or a victor yet more cold,
  Might have forgot his virtue at her sight.

  N. Rowe, Tamerlane, iii. 3 (1702.)

ANSON, when he took the Senhora Theresa de Jesus, refused even to see the three Spanish ladies who formed part of the prize, because he was resolved to prevent private scandal.  The three ladies consisted of a mother and her two daughters, the younger of whom was “of surpassing beauty.”

CONVEN’TUAL FRIARS are those who live in convents, contrary to the rule of St. Francis, who enjoined absolute poverty, without land, books, chapel, or house.  Those who conform to the rule of the founder are called “Observant Friars.”

CONVERSATION SHARP, Richard Sharp, the critic (1759-1835.)

COOK WHO KILLED HIMSELF (The).  Vatel killed himself in 1671, because the lobster for his turbot sauce did not arrive in time to be served up at the banquet at Chantilly, given by the Prince de Conde to the king.

COOKS OF MODERN TIMES.  Careme, called “The Regenerator of Cookery” (1784-1833).  Charles Elme Francatelli, cook at Crockford’s, then in the Royal Household, and lastly at the Reform Club (1805-1876).  Ude, Gouffe, and Alexis Soyer, the last of whom died in 1858.

COOKERY (Regenerator of), Careme (1784-1833.)

(Ude, Gouffe, and Soyer were also regenerators of this art).

COOPER (Anthony Ashly,) earl of Shaftesbury, introduced by Sir W.
Scott in Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.)

COPHET’UA or COPET’HUA, a mythical king of Africa, of great wealth, who fell in love with a beggar-girl, and married her.  Her name was Penel’ophon, but Shakespeare writes it Zenel’ophon in Love’s Labour’s Lost, act iv. sc. 1.  Tennyson has versified the tale in The Beggar-Maid.—­Percy, Reliques, I. ii. 6.

COPLEY (Sir Thomas), in attendance on the earl of Leicester at
Woodstock.—­Sir W. Scott, Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).

COPPER CAPTAIN (A), Michael Perez, a captain without money, but with a plentiful stock of pretence, who seeks to make a market of his person and commission by marrying an heiress.  He is caught in his own trap, for he marries Estifania, a woman of intrigue, fancying her to be the heiress Margaritta.  The captain gives the lady “pearls,” but they are only whitings’ eyes.  His wife says to him: 

  Here’s a goodly jewel.. 
  Did you not win this at Goletta, captain?.. 
  See how it sparkles, like an old lady’s eyes.. 
  And here’s a chain of whitings’ eyes for pearls.. 
  Your clothes are parallels to these, all counterfeits. 
  Put these and them on you’re a man of copper,
  A copper,... copper captain.

  Beaumont and Fletcher, Rule a Wife and
  Have a Wife (1640).