(_b_) "_hangman of Calais_" (JE359,_a_), this mention (_see supra_) may have some bearing on the date of the play. Halliwell in _Old Plays_ gives 1566 as the date of printing, but does not state how he arrives at the figures: see John the Evangelist. CAN (_passim_), able to do; does. CAPAX, "tractable and _capax_" (WS137,_d_), capable, sharp, knowing: Latin. "I am a trew flie; sure I can no false knackes; Alas! master spyder, ye be to _capackes_." Heywood, _Works_ (E.E.D.S.), III., _Spider and Flie_, 1556. CAPPER, "the scald _capper_" (N67,_c_), a cap-maker. "_Cappar_, bonnettier."--Palsgrave, _Lang. Franc._ CAPTIVITY, "passeth our captivity" (R211,_b_), capacity: part of People's mumble-jumble. CAREFUL, "a _careful_ carriage" (WS173,_a_), full of care: cf. Painful, Hateful. "By him that raised me to this _careful_ height."--Shakespeare, _Rich. III._ (1597), i. 3. CAREN, "as _carene_" (M32,_d_), carrion. "I felte the stench of _caren_ here present."--_Wisdom_ (E.E.T.S.), 71, 1103. CARONOUS, "_caronous_ body" (N89,_c_), rotten: of Shakespeare (_Julius Cæsar_, iii. 1), "That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With _carrion_ men, groaning for burial." CASSE, "I hung upon the _casse_" (M27,_d_), apparently a frame of some sort. CAT, "a _cat_ ... may look on a king" (R236,_b_); see Heywood, _Works_ (E.E.D.S.), II., 340, _s.v._ Cat _a_. CATCH, "Catch that _catch_ may" (R187,_b_). An early example of this proverbial saying. CATON (JE352,_c_), Cato, the Roman Censor: the pattern of sternness and austere manner, he stabbed himself at Utica 46 B.C. because, considering freedom as alone sustaining the dignity of man, he felt himself unable to survive the independence of his country. He was frequently quoted by writers of this period--"_Caton_, the grete clerke "--_Cast. Persev._ (E.E.T.S., 103, 868). CAVEATIS, "I say _Caveatis_" (M21,_d_; 22,_b_), Beware! CAVILLATION, "make this _cavillation_" (WH281,_d_), frivolous objections, cavilling. "I might add so much concerning the large odds between the case of the eldest churches in regard of heathens, and ours in respect of the Church of Rome, that very _cavillation_ itself should be satisfied."--Hook. CAYME, "in that _cayme_ he was like to" (JE366,_c_), in original _Cayme_. I can make nothing of it except that it is a misprint for Cain. CEPE, "speak to the sheriff for a _cepe_ coppus" (M34,_d_), _i.e._ _cape corpus_ for _capias corpus_, a writ of attachment. _'Ch_ (_passim_) = I: _e.g._ cha = I have (ich 'a'); chad = I had; cham = I am, etc.; see Dialect. CHA, CHE, "_Che_ wa'r't" (R210,_c_),--"_Che_ was vair" (R232,_b_),--"_Cha_ not be haled up" (R267,_c_). I. CHAD (_passim_), I had--'ch 'ad. CHAM (_passim_) I am--'ch am.