In the Glosse to the Calendar for May it is said that "Great Pan is Christ, the very God of all shepheards, which calleth himselfe the great and good shepheard. The name is most rightly (methinks) applied to him; for Pan signifieth all, or omnipotent, which is only the Lord Iesus. And by that name (as I remember) he is called of Eusebius in his fifth booke, De Preparat. Evange."
[23.] silly. From A.-S. saelig, blessed, happy. Spenser uses the word in the sense of innocent, as in "Faerie Queene," III, viii, 27:
"The silly virgin strove him to withstand."
Chaucer, in the "Reves Tale," uses it in the more modern sense of simple, or foolish:
"These sely clerkes han ful fast yronne."
But in the "Legend of Good Women" it has another meaning:
"O sely woman, full of innocence."
The meaning of this word has completely changed.
[24.] strook. Caused to sound as on a stringed instrument. Compare Dryden in "Alexander's Feast":
"Now strike the golden lyre again."