_Captain (A Copper)_, a poor captain, whose swans are all geese, his jewellry paste, his guineas counters, his achievements tongue-doughtiness, and his whole man Brummagem. See _Copper Captain_. _Captain (The Black)_, lieutenant-colonel Dennis Davidoff of the Russian army. In the French invasion he was called by the French _Le Capitaine Noir_. CAPTAIN LOYS [_Lo.is_]. Louise Labé was so called, because in early life she embraced the profession of arms, and gave repeated proofs of great valor. She was also called _La Belle Cordière_. Louise Labé was a poetess, and has left several sonnets full of passion, and some good elegies (1526-1566). CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! fallen leader apostrophized by Walt Whitman in his lines upon the death of President Lincoln (1865). O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells! Rise up! for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths, for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning. Here, Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead. CAPTAIN RIGHT, a fictitious commander, the ideal of the rights due to Ireland. In the last century the peasants of Ireland were sworn to captain Right, as chartists were sworn to their articles of demand called their _charter_. Shakespeare would have furnished them with a good motto, "Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping?" (_Hamlet_, act ii. sc. 2). CAPTAIN ROCK, a fictitious name assumed by the leader of certain Irish insurgents in 1822, etc. All notices, summonses, and so on, were signed by this name. CAP'ULET, head of a noble house of Verona, in feudal enmity with the house of Mon'tague (3 syl). Lord Capulet is a jovial, testy old man, self-willed, prejudiced, and tyrannical. _Lady Capulet_, wife of lord Capulet and mother of Juliet.--Shakespeare, _Romeo and Juliet_ (1598). CAPYS, a blind old seer, who prophesied to Romulus the military triumphs of Rome from its foundation to the destruction of Carthage. In the hall-gate sat Capys, Capys the sightless seer; From head to foot he trembled As Romulus drew near. And up stood stiff his thin white hair, And his blind eyes flashèd fire. Lord Macaulay, _Lays of Ancient Rome_ ("The Prophecy of Capys," xi.). CAR'ABAS (_Le marquis de_), an hypothetical title to express a fossilized old aristocrat, who supposed the whole world made for his behoof. The "king owes his throne to him;" he can "trace his pedigree to Pepin;" his youngest son is "sure of a mitre;" he is too noble "to pay taxes;" the very priests share their tithes with him; the country was made for his "hunting-ground;" and, therefore, as Béranger says: Chapeau bas! chapeau bas! Gloire au marquis de Carabas! The name occurs in Perrault's tale of _Puss in Boots_, but it is Béranger's song (1816) which has given the word its present meaning.