Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford

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  • A Renunciation

    From Byrd’s “Songs and Sonnets,” 1588
    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...