Can She Excuse My Wrongs

Dm          F              
Can she excuse my wrongs with 
    C   Dm    A
Virtue's cloak?
Am    Dm  Gm  C    F    Bb    
Shall I call her good, when 
Gm   Asus A   D
she proves unkind?
Dm          F                  C 
Are those clear fires which 
  Dm    A
vanish into smoke?
Am    Dm  Gm  C    F       Bb 
Must I praise the leaves, 
   Gm   Asus A   D
where no fruit I find?

Dm         F                C    
No, no: where shadows do for 
Dm    A
bodies stand
Am    Dm  Gm  C    F   Bb    
Thou may'st be abus'd, if thy
Gm   Asus A   D
 sight be dim.
Dm          F                  C 
Cold love is like to words 
  Dm    A
written on sand
Am    Dm  Gm  C   F  Bb    Gm
Or to bubbles which, on the 
   Asus A   D
water swim.

F
Wilt thou be thus abused still
G
Seeing that she will right thee 
never?
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A
If thou canst not o'ercome her will
D                             G 
Thy love will be thus fruitless 
D
ever.

Dm          F            C   Dm 
Was I so base, that I might not 
   A
aspire
Am    Dm  Gm  C    F    Bb    
Unto those high joys, which 
Gm   Asus A   D
she holds from me?
Dm          F             C   
As they are high, so high is 
Dm    A
my desire:
Am  Dm  Gm  C  F   Bb    Gm   
If she this deny, what can 
Asus A   D
granted be?

Dm          F                
If she will yield to that which 
C   Dm    A
Reason is,
Am    Dm  Gm   C  F   Bb    
It is Reason's will, that 
Gm   Asus A   D
Love should be just,
Dm          F             
Dear, make me happy still by 
     C   Dm    A
granting this,
Am  Dm  Gm  C  F    Bb    Gm 
Or cut off delays, if that I 
  Asus A   D
die must.

F
Better a thousand times to die,
G
Than for to live thus still 
tormented:
A
Dear, but remember it was I
D                             G D
Who for thy sake did die contented.

F
Better a thousand times to die,
G
Than for to live thus still 
tormented:
A
Dear, but remember it was I
D                      
Who for thy sake did die 
       G D
contented...