Walsingham (Ophelia’s version)

1. How should I your true love know
 from another ōne*?
By his cockle hat and staff
 and his sandal sho͟on.

2. He is dead and gone, ladȳ;
 he is dead and gone.
At his head a grass-green turf;
 at his heels a stone.

3. White his shroud as the mountain snow
 larded with sweet flow’rs,
Which bewept to the ground did not go
 with true-love show’rs.

* For an explanation of the marks added to the letters, see Linguistic notes: English.

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