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"Don's mameless billet-doux for the princess of France?" ?APO

Capo?

Should have added that Don in mafia terms is known as "Capo".(nameless Capon- reference is Love's Labour Lost)

Many thanks, AB: I wonder how the word took on its second meaning...

Capo is Italian for boss.

No, I mean how did a word meaning castrated cock come to mean a love-letter:seems very odd to me! No success yet with google."Poulet" in French has nearly the same double meaning.Any Shakespeare scholar online at the moment?!

Why are you posting an identical question on Answerbank?

Surely one site at a time!

The Princess of France is a Character in Love's Labour Lost.
She is sent a letter which she refers to as a "capon".

Just realised that your enquiry was about how capon had the double meaning. As you say it is the same meaning in French so perhaps the use of capon by a French character was an "in joke"?

In all innocence,Terry: why?