GANYMEDE was the son of Troas, the eponymous founder of Troy. Jupiter fell in love with him and, changing himself into an eagle, swooped down on Ganymede. He carried him to Mount Olympus, where he made him his cupbearer (Met X.155-161).

As the Learned Eagle bears him away, the Dreamer asserts that he is not Ganymede, HF II.589-592. Ganymede is called the "goddys botiller," HF II.592. Chaucer could have taken the word from several sources: boutiller occurs in Jean de Condé's La Messe de Oisiaus, 453 (before 1345); Hebe is described as bouteillière des cieulz, "heaven's butler," in Ovide Moralisé IX.17-57. [Jupiter]

The name appears in final rhyming position, HF II.592.