_To
hear_, understood, governs all the infinitives that follow; among the
rest, _the winds (to) chide_.
[93] _Rut_ is used for the sound of the tide in Cheshire. (See
_Halliwell's Dictionary_.) Does _rutty_ mean _roaring?_ or does it
describe the deep, rugged shores of the Jordan?
[94] A monosyllable, contracted afterwards into _bloom_.
[95] Willows.
[96] _Groom_ originally means just _a man_. It was a word much used when
pastoral poetry was the fashion. Spenser has _herd-grooms_ in his
_Shepherd's Calendar_. This last is what it means here: _shepherds_.
[97] Obtain, save.
[98] Equivalent to "What are those hands of yours for?"
[99] He was but thirty-nine when he died.
[100] To rhyme with _pray_ in the second line.
[101] Bunch of flowers. He was thinking of Aaron's rod, perhaps.
[102] To correspond to that of Christ.
[103] Again a touch of holy humour: to match his Master's predestination,
he will contrive something three years beforehand, with an _if_.
[104] The _here_ in the preceding line means _his book_; hence the _thy
book_ is antithetical.
[105] _Concent_ is a singing together, or harmoniously.
[106] Music depends all on proportions.
[107] The diapason is the octave. Therefore "all notes true." See note 2,
p. 205.
[108] An intransitive verb: _he was wont_.
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