CARDE´NIO of Andalusi´a, of opulent parents, fell in love with Lucinda, a lady of equal family and fortune, to whom he was formally engaged. Don Fernando his friend, however, prevailed on Lucinda's father, by artifice, to break off the engagement and promise Lucinda to himself, "contrary to her wish, and in violation of every principle of honor." 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). CARE, described as a blacksmith, who "worked all night and day." His bellows, says Spenser, are Pensiveness and Sighs.--_Faéry Queen_, iv. 5 (1596). CARE'LESS, one of the boon companions of Charles Surface.--Sheridan, _School for Scandal_ (1777). _Care'less (Colonel)_, an officer of high spirits and mirthful temper, who seeks to win Ruth (the daughter of sir Basil Thoroughgood) for his wife.--T. Knight, _The Honest Thieves_. This farce is a mere _réchauffé_ of _The Committee_, by the hon. sir R. Howard. The names "colonel Careless" and "Ruth" are the same, but "Ruth" says her proper Christian name is "Anne." _Careless_, in _The Committee_, was the part for which Joseph Ashbury (1638-1720) was celebrated.--Chetwood, _History of the Stage._ (_The Committee_, recast by T. Knight, is called _The Honest Thieves_.) _Careless (Ned)_, makes love to lady Pliant.--W. Congreve, _The Double Dealer_ (1700). CARELESS HUSBAND _(The)_, a comedy by Colley Cibber (1704). The "careless husband" is sir Charles Easy, who has amours with different persons, but is so careless that he leaves his love-letters about, and even forgets to lock the door when he has made a _liaison_, so that his wife knows all; yet so sweet is her temper, and under such entire control, that she never reproaches him, nor shows the slightest indication of jealousy. Her confidence so wins upon her husband that he confesses to her his faults, and reforms entirely the evil of his ways. CARÊME _(Jean de), chef de cuisine_ of Leo X. This was a name given him by the pope for an admirable _soupe maigre_ which he invented for Lent. A descendant of Jean was _chef_ to the prince regent, at a salary of £1000 per annum, but he left this situation because the prince had only a _ménage bourgeois_, and entered the service of baron Rothschild at Paris (1784-1833). CAREY, innocent-faced rich young dude in Ellen Olney Kirk's novel, _A Daughter of Eve_ (1889).