Note 419 — RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Reading edition
Originally in the first edition,
In various talk the cheerful hours they passed, Of who was bit, or who capotted last.—Pope.
When one party has won all the tricks of cards at picquet, he is said to have capotted his antagonist.—Johnson.
Dryden's Æn. vi. 720:
While thus in talk the flying hours they pass.