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Lyrics
How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.
He is dead and gone, lady
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.
White his shroud as the mountain snow--
Larded with sweet flowers
Which bewept to the grave did go
With true-love showers.
Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And duppedthe chamber door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
By Gis and by Saint Charity
Alack, and fie for shame!
Young men will do't, if they come to't;
By Cock, they are to blame.
Quoth she, "Before you tumbled me,
You promised me to wed."
He answers,
"So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,
An thou hadst not come to my bed."
They bore him barefaced on the bier;
Hey non, nonny, nonny, hey nonny.
And his grave rained many a tear:
Fare you well, my dove!
You must sing a-down a-down,
--And you, Call him a-down-a--
O, how the wheel becomes it!
It is the false Steward,
that stole his master's daughter.
Spoken:
There's rosemary, that's for rembrance.
Pray you, love, remember.
And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
There's fennel for you, a columbines.
--There's rue for you, and here's some for me.
We may call it "herb of grace" o' Sundays.
--Oh, you must wear your rue with a difference.
--There's a daisy. I would give you some violets,
but they withered all when my father died.
They say he made a good end.
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy--
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, he is dead:
Go to thy deathbed.
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll:
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan:
God ha' mercy on his soul.--
And on all Christian souls,
I pray God, God be wiye.
-- William Shakespeare,
excerpts from Hamlet Act IV, Scene 5
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Lyrics
How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.
He is dead and gone, lady
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.
White his shroud as the mountain snow--
Larded with sweet flowers
Which bewept to the grave did go
With true-love showers.
Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And duppedthe chamber door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
By Gis and by Saint Charity
Alack, and fie for shame!
Young men will do't, if they come to't;
By Cock, they are to blame.
Quoth she, "Before you tumbled me,
You promised me to wed."
He answers,
"So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,
An thou hadst not come to my bed."
They bore him barefaced on the bier;
Hey non, nonny, nonny, hey nonny.
And his grave rained many a tear:
Fare you well, my dove!
You must sing a-down a-down,
--And you, Call him a-down-a--
O, how the wheel becomes it!
It is the false Steward,
that stole his master's daughter.
Spoken:
There's rosemary, that's for rembrance.
Pray you, love, remember.
And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
There's fennel for you, a columbines.
--There's rue for you, and here's some for me.
We may call it "herb of grace" o' Sundays.
--Oh, you must wear your rue with a difference.
--There's a daisy. I would give you some violets,
but they withered all when my father died.
They say he made a good end.
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy--
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, he is dead:
Go to thy deathbed.
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll:
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan:
God ha' mercy on his soul.--
And on all Christian souls,
I pray God, God be wiye.
-- William Shakespeare,
excerpts from Hamlet Act IV, Scene 5
Full Score