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The first of Ophelia's Mad song from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5.
The tune is traditional as given by Hullah.

1. How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.

2. He dead and gone, lady,
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 flowers,
Which bewept to the grave did not go,
With true-love showers.