Chapter P to Pagan of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

The old don, being a man of sense, at once perceived that Leander was a more suitable bridegroom than himself, so he not only sanctioned the alliance, but gave Leonora a handsome wedding dowry (1768).

Pæan, the physician of the immortals.

Pæana, daughter of Corflambo, “fair as ever yet saw living eye,” but “too loose of life and eke too light.” Pæana fell in love with Amias, a captive in her father’s dungeon; but Amias had no heart to give away. When Placidas was brought captive before Pæana, she mistook him for Amias, and married him. The poet adds, that she thenceforth so reformed her ways “that all men much admired the change, and spake her praise.”—Spenser: Faërie Queene, iv. 9 (1596).

Pagan, a fay who loved the princess Imis; but Imis rejected his suit, as she loved her cousin Philax. Pagan, out of revenge, shut them up in a superb crystal palace, which contained every delight except that of leaving it. In the course of a few years, Imis and Philax longed as much for a separation as, at one time, they had wished to be united.—Comtesse D’Aulnoy: Fairy Tales (“Palace of Revenge,” 1682). (See Perdrix, Perdrix, Toujours Perdrix!)