can she excuse chords by John Dowland

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Verse 1
Am 
C 
Can she excuse my wrongs
E 
with virtue's cloak?
Am 
C 
Shall I call her good when she
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Am 
proves unkind?
C 
Are those clear fires
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which vanish into smoke?
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E 
Am 
Must I praise the leaves where no fruit I find?
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Am 
No, no, where shadows do for

Verse 2
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bodies stand
Am 
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C 
Am 
Thou may'st be ab used if
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thy sight be dimmed
Am 
Cold love is like to words
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E 
C 
written on sand
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C 
Dm 
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F 
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Or to bubbles which on  the wa ter swim
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Am 
Wilt thou be thus abused still

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Verse 3

Seeing that she will right thee never?

If thou cans't not overcome her will

Thy love will be thus fruitless ever

Interlude 1

Was I so

Verse 4
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base, that I  might not aspire
Am 
Dm 
C 
Unto those high joys which
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she holds from me?
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Am 
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As they are high, so high is my de sire
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Dm 
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If she this deny, what can granted be?
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If she will

Verse 5
Am 
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G 
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yield to that which reason is
Dm 
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It is reason's will that
love should be just
Am 
Dear, make me happy still
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by granting this
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E 
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Or cut off delays if that I  die must
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Better a thousand

Verse 6
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times to die
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Than for to live thus still tormen
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ted
Dear, but remember it was I
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E 
A 
Am 
Who for thy sake did die contented
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Better a thousand