DmFCDmA
Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak?
AmDmGmCFBbGmAsusAD
Shall I call her good, when she proves unkind?
DmFCDmA
Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke?
AmDmGmCFBbGmAsusAD
Must I praise the leaves, where no fruit I find?
DmFCDmA
No, no: where shadows do for bodies stand
AmDmGmCFBbGmAsusAD
Thou may'st be abus'd, if thy sight be dim.
DmFCDmA
Cold love is like to words written on sand
AmDmGmCFBbGmAsusAD
Or to bubbles which, on the water swim.
F
Wilt thou be thus abused still
G
Seeing that she will right thee never?
A
If thou canst not o'ercome her will
DGD
Thy love will be thus fruitless ever.
DmFCDmA
Was I so base, that I might not aspire
AmDmGmCFBbGmAsusAD
Unto those high joys, which she holds from me?
DmFCDmA
As they are high, so high is my desire:
AmDmGmCFBbGmAsusAD
If she this deny, what can granted be?
DmFCDmA
If she will yield to that which Reason is,
AmDmGmCFBbGmAsusAD
It is Reason's will, that Love should be just,
DmFCDmA
Dear, make me happy still by granting this,
AmDmGmCFBbGmAsusAD
Or cut off delays, if that I die must.
F
Better a thousand times to die,
G
Than for to live thus still tormented:
A
Dear, but remember it was I
DGD
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
DGD
Who for thy sake did die contented...
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