How should I your true love know?

How should I your true love know

From another one?

By his cockle hat and staff

And his sandal shoon

What imports this song?

He is dead and gone, Lady

He is dead and gone

At his head the grass-green turf

At his heels a stone

White his shroud as the mountain snow—

Larded all with sweet flowers,

Which bewept to the ground did not go

With true-love showers.

How do you...?