“Tut-tut!” said Jove, “you should not speak
So slightingly of my good spouse;
She has been busy all this week
Up on Olympus cleaning house.
And while she sweeps, I’ve naught to do
But stay here making love to you!”
“She would do well,” the maid replies,
“To sweep the dust from out her eyes.”
Alas for Io! Juno heard
Her idle words within the hour;