Pyerides

< In Greek mythology, King Pyeride, once king of Macedonia, had nine daughters he named after the nine Muses, believing that their skills were a great match to the Muses. He thus challenged the Muses to a match, resulting in his daughters being turned into magpies and jackdaws. In Greek mythology these nine daughters of the king usually are referred to as the Pyerides.

o Muses, that men clepen Pyerides

(Methamorphoseos wot what I mene) ;

But natheles I recche nat a bene,

They I come after him with hawe-bake,

I speke in prose, and let him rymes make."

And with that word, he with a sobre cheere

Bygan his tale, as ye schal after heere.

The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Wright 1847

To myses that men clepe pyerides woot

Methamorphoseos wote what I mene

But netheles I recke not a bene aftyr

They I come after hym wyth hawe y bake let

I speke in prose and lete hym rymes make word sobyr 

Wynkyn de Worde's 1498 Edition of The Canterbury tales