"When Pharamond of France possessed the throne,

  His son, prince Clodion, had a mistress rare;

  And damsel in that ancient age was none

  More graceful, beauteous, or more debonair;

  So loved of Pharamond's enamoured son,

  That he lost sight no oftener of the fair

  Than Io's shepherd of his charge whilere:

  For jealous as enamoured was the peer.