V. Can she excuse my wrongs

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T:V. Can she excuse my wrongs
T:Tenor
C: John Dowland
O: From The First Booke of songs or Ayres of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute
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M:3/2
L:1/8
N: Original clef, C on third line
N:The key signature is D dorian, but it looks more like D minor, since almost every B is flat.
K:Ddor -8va
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w:1.~Can she _ ex- cuse my wrongs with ver- tues cloak? shal I call her good when she 
w:Are those _ cleer fires which va- nish in- to smoak? must I praise the leaves where no 
w:2.~Was I _ so base, that I might not as- pire Un- to those high joyes which she 
w:As they _ are high, so high is my de- sire: If she this de- nie, what can 
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w: proves un- kind? No _ no no: where sha- dowes do for bo - dies for bo- dies stand, thou maist bee a-
w:fruit I find? Cold _ love love is like to words to words _ _ writ- ten on sand, or to  bub- bles
w:holds from me? If _ she _ will yeeld to that which rea- * son, which rea- son, is, It is rea- sons
w:gran- ted be? Deare _ make _ me hap- py still by grant- * ing, by grant- ing, this, Or cut off de-
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w: busde if _ thy sight thy sight be _ dim. 1.~Wilt thou be thus a- bu- sed still, see- ing that she wil right thee 
w:which on _ the wa- ter wa- ter _  swim.
w: will that love, that love, should be _ _ just. 2.~Bet- ter a thou- sand times to die, Then for to live thus still tor- 
w: layes if that, if that, I die _ _ must.
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w:ne- ver if thou canst not ore- com her wil, thy love wil be thus fruit- les e- ver.
w:ment- ed: Deare but re- mem- ber it was I Who for thy sake did die con- tent- ed.

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