Annotation:How should I your true love know

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HOW SHOULD I YOUR TRUE LOVE KNOW. AKA and see "You'll Think E'er Many Days Ensue." English, Air (4/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). The piece is the first of Ophelia's "Mad Songs" in Hamlet (act IV, scene 5). Kines (1964) identifies the tune as traditional, given by Hullah. One part.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kines (Songs From Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time), 1964; p. 32.

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