Love
How Should I Your True Love Know?
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Love
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 all with sweet flowers,
Which bewept to the grave did go
With true-love showers.
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Shakespeare, William. “How Should I Your True Love Know?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/204/.
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Shakespeare, William. “How Should I Your True Love Know?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/204/.
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