Can She Excuse My Wrongs
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"Can She Excuse My Wrongs" is a late 16th-century song by the English Renaissance composer John Dowland, the fifth song in his First Booke of Songes or Ayres. The words are set to a dance-tune, a gall
Young man, possibly the Earl of Essex, c.1588. Nicholas Hilliard, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Daniel Bacheler
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Daniel Bacheler, also variously spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, was an English lutenist and composer. Of all the English lutenist-composers, he is now credited as probably being the most succe
Can She Excuse My Wrongs
…lyricist. He is certainly a possible candidate: other poems by him survive and there is another lute-song associated with him, "To plead my faith", set by Daniel Batcheler. However, the attribution of "Can She Excuse" largely rests on the posthumous dedication of the galliard published in Dowland's 1604 collection Lachrimae…
Daniel Bacheler (on horseback) from an engraving by Thomas Lant of the funeral procession of Sir Philip Sidney in 1586