(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.