CAN SHE EXCUSE My WRONGS?
ary wrongswith Virtues cloak? Shall Tcl
int smoke? Must prai
Voice
Can she ox - case
‘Are those clear fires which van'~ ish
Lure
when she proves un - kind? No, no, where sha-dows do for
where ‘no “Truit “T find? cold love “is lke” to. words writ -
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Yo = dies stand Thou mayst be a tuned IC hy sight be dims
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bu~ sed still that she Will_Fight thee nev = er?
If thoueanst not wler-come her will Thy love will be thus fruitless ev -
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‘Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtues cloak?
i hee good when she proves unk
iohlinto smoke?
fet Find?
Noy no, where shadows do for bodies stand
‘os mayht be abused thy wight be im
Cold lve is like ta words written on sand
‘Oro bubbles which on the water swim.
‘Wilt thou be thus abused still
Seeing that she wil right thee never?
Uf thou canst not oercome her will
‘Thy lave wil be thus fraitless over,
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Was Iso base that I might not aspire
‘Cate those high
‘Asthey are high, so
[she will yield to that which Reason is,
it it Reasor's will that Love should Be Just
Dear, make me happy still by granting this,
‘Or cut ofr delaye it that diet must
Better a thousand times to die
Th ‘stl tormented.
Dear, but remomber it was]
"Who for thy sake did die contented
ment is that of popular Elizabethan song “Sal! [go walk the moods s0 wild?"
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