door, and took the
key with him. Leander, a young student, smitten with the damsel, laughed
at locksmiths and duennas, and, having gained admission into the house,
was detected by Don Diego, who returned unexpectedly. The old don, being
a man of sense, 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).

=Paean=, the physician of the immortals.

=Paea'na=, daughter of Corflambo, "fair as ever yet saw living eye," but
"too loose of life and eke too light." Paeana fell in love with Am[)i]as,
a captive in her father's dungeon; but Amias had no heart to give away.
When Plac[)i]dae was brought captive before Paeana, 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, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, 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 wished to be united.--Comtesse
D'Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ ("Palace of Revenge," 1682).

=Page= (_Mr._), a gentleman living at Windsor. When Sir John Falstaff made
love to Mrs. Page, Page himself assumed the name of Brooke, to outwit
the knight. Sir John told the supposed Brooke his whole "course of
wooing," and how nicely he was bamboozling the husband. On one occasion,
he says, "I was carried out in a buck-basket of dirty linen before the
very eyes of Page, and the deluded husband did not know it." Of course,
Sir John is thoroughly outwitted and played upon, being made the butt of
the whole village.

_Mrs. Page_, wife of Mr. Page of Windsor. When Sir John Falstaff made
love to her, she joined with Mrs. Ford to dupe him and punish him.

_Anne Page_, daughter of the above, in love with Fenton. Slender calls
her "the sweet Anne Page."

_William Page_, Anne's brother, a schoolboy.--Shakespeare, _Merry Wives
of Windsor_ (1595).

_Page_ (_Sir Francis_), called "The Hanging Judge" (1661-1741).

Slander and poison dread from Delia's rage;
Hard words or hanging if your judge be Page.

Pope.

_Page_ (_Ruth_). A dainty little miss, bright, happy and imaginative,
call