In esteeming the love of a man:

Who preferred with most reason was thereby confessed

Boy-Cupid's exemplary catcher and eager;

An Abbé crossed legs to decide on the wager.

First the Duchesse: "Mine for me—

Who were it but God's for Him,

And the King's for—who but he?

Both faithful and loyal, one grace more shall brim

His cup with perfection: a lady's true lover,

He holds—save his God and his king—none above her."