me quoque dicunt
Vatem pastores.—Wakefield.
[35] Milton's Lycidas, ver. 34:
Rough satyrs danced.
Dryden's Virgil, Ecl. vi. 42:
He raised his voice, and soon a num'rous throng
Of tripping satyrs crowded to the song.
Pan was the god of shepherds, the inventor of the pastoral pipe of reeds, and himself a skilful musician. "The ancient images," says Archbishop Whately, "represent him as partly in the human form, and partly in that of a goat, with horns and cloven hoofs. And hence it is that, by a kind of tradition, we often see, even at this day, representations of Satan in this form. For the early christians seem to have thought that it was he whom the pagans adored under the name of Pan."
[36] Spenser's Elegy on the death of Sir P. Sidney:
Come forth, ye nymphs, forsake your wat'ry bowers,
Forsake your mossy caves.
[37] Spenser's Astrophel:
And many a nymph both of the wood and brook,
Soon as his oaten pipe began to shrill,
Both chrystal wells, and shady groves forsook
To hear the charms of his enchanting skill;
And brought him presents, flow'rs if it were prime,
Or mellow fruit if it were harvest time.