A Renunciation

If women could be fair, and yet not fond,
Or that their love were firm, not fickle still,
I would not marvel that they make men bond
By service long to purchase their good will;
But when I see how frail those creatures are,
I muse that men forget themselves so far.
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About E. Vere, Earl of Oxford

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era, known as a patron of the arts and poet.

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