V. Can she excuse my wrongs

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T:V. Can she excuse my wrongs
T:Altus
C: John Dowland
O: From The First Booke of songs or Ayres of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute
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w:1.~Can she ex- cuse my wrongs with ver- tues cloak? shal I call her good when she  proves
w:Are those cleer fires which va- nish in- to smoak? must I praise the leaves where no fruit
w:2.~Was i so base, that I might not as- pire Un- to those high joyes which she holds 
w:As they are high, so high is my de- sire: If she this de- nie, what can gran-
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w: un- kind? No no: where _ sha- dows do where sha- dows do for bo- dies stand, thou maist be a-
w: I find? Cold love is _ like to words writ like to words writ- ten on sand, or to bub- bles 
w:from me? If she will _ yeeld to that which rea- * son is, rea- son is, It is rea- sons
w:ted be? Deare make me _ hap- py still by grant- * ing this, grant- ing this, Or cut off de-
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w: busde a- bused if thy sight be dim. 1.~Wilt thou be thus a- bu - sed still, see- ing that she wil right thee ne- ver
w:which on the wa- ter wa- ter swim. 2.~Bet- ter a thou- sand times to die, _ Then for to live, thus still tor- ment- ed: 
w: will that love, that love, should be just.
w: layes if that I die, I die, must.
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w: if thou canst not ore- com her wil, thy love wil be thus fruit- les e- ver.
w:Deare but re- mem- ber it was I Who for thy sake did die con- tent- ed.

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