e our Lord went to
the garden by the brook Cedron.

[92] The construction is obscure just from the insertion of the _to_
before _breathe_, where it ought not to be after the verb _hear_. The
poet does not mean that he delights to hear that voice more than to
breathe gentle airs, but more than to hear gentle airs (to) breathe. _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_.

[109] The birds called _halcyons_ were said to build their nests on the
water, and, while they were brooding, to keep it calm.

[110] The morning star.

[111] The God of shepherds especially, but the God of all nature--the All
in all, for _Pan_ means the _All_.

[112] Milton here uses the old Ptolemaic theory of a succession of solid
crystal concentric spheres, in which the heavenly bodies were fixed, and
which revolving carried these with them. The lowest or innermost of these
spheres was that of the moon. "The hollow round of Cynthia's seat" is,
therefore, this sphere in which the moon sits.

[113] That cannot be expressed or described.

[114] By _hinges_ he means the axis of the earth, on which it turns as on
a hinge. The origin of _hinge_ is _hang_. It is what anything hangs on.

[115] Th