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Can She Excuse My Wrongs

from Hidden Gold by Drake Oranwood

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A tool of the trade for an SCA bard is actual music from the period he or she recreates. For an Elizabethan minstrel, all roads lead to John Dowland.

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Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak?
Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?
Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke?
Must I praise the leaves where no fruit I find?

No, no, where shadows do for bodies stand,
Thou may'st be abus'd if thy sight be dim.
Cold love is like to words written on sand,
Or to bubbles which on the water swim.

Wilt thou be thus abused still,
Seeing that she will right thee never?
If thou cans't not o'ercome her will
Thy love will be thus fruitless ever.

Wilt thou be thus abused still,
Seeing that she will right thee never?
If thou cans't not o'ercome her will,
Thy love will be thus fruitless ever.

Was I so base, that I might not aspire
Unto those high joys which she holds from me?
As they are high, so high is my desire.
If she this deny, what can granted be?

If she will yield to that which Reason is...
It is Reason's will that Love should be just.
Dear, make me happy still by granting this,
Or cut off delays if that I die must.

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

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

credits

from Hidden Gold, released June 20, 2015
Music: John Dowland
Lyrics: Anonymous
Vocals: Eric Schrager
Guitar: Dave Lambert
Recorder quartet: Paul Butler

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Drake Oranwood Park Ridge, New Jersey

Drake Oranwood (Eric Schrager, he/him) is a singer, songwriter, producer, lutenist, and medieval / renaissance enthusiast who brings modern sensibilities to original songs set long ago and far away.

In the Society for Creative Anachronism, Drake is part of the bardic community, where original and period performances are shared at fire circles and waysides for weary travelers.
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