Ophelia me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays; O, you must wear your rue with a difference". Rue is well known for its symbolic meaning of regret, but the herb is also used to treat pain, bruises and has abortive qualities. In Act 4 Scene 7, Queen Gertrude reports that Ophelia had climbed into a willow tree ("There is a willow grows aslant the brook"), and that the branch had broken and dropped Ophelia into the brook, where she drowned. Gertrude says that Ophelia appeared "incapable of her own distress". Gertrude's announcement of Ophelia's death has been praised
Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be? he'd buy me a fairing should please me, And then for a kiss, oh! he vowed he would tease me, He promised he'd bring me a bunch of blue ribbons, To tie up my bonny brown hair. </poem> Cohen's "Folk Music" gives a different version of the lyrics: <poem> O dear, what can the matter be? O dear, what can the matter be? O dear, what can the matter be? Johnny's so long at the fair. He promised he'd bring me a bunch of blue ribbons. He promised he'd bring me a bunch of blue ribbons. He promised he'd bring