That show, contain and nourish all the world:

350 Else none at all in ought proves excellent.

Then fools you were these women to forswear;

Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.

For wisdom’s sake, a word that all men love;

[354] Or for love’s sake, a word that loves all men;

[355] Or for men’s sake, the authors of these women;

[356] Or women’s sake, by whom we men are men;

[357] Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,

Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.