Every female vow is stolen away by changes of fortune or evaporates with shifting seasons; a woman’s reliability stands on slippery soles and is weakened by chance accidents; her faith is glibly pledged but executed slackly, hampered by the various allurements of pleasure; always eager to seek out new interests and forget the old, it leaps away breathlessly towards its desire.

Ita uotum omne foemineum fortune uarietas abripit, temporum mutatio dissoluit, et muliebris animi fidem lubrico nixam uestigio fortuiti rerum casus extenuant, que sicut ad pollicendum facilis, ita ad persoluendum segnis uariis uoluptatis irritamentis astringitur atque ad recentia semper auidius expetenda ueterum immemor anhela preceps cupiditate dissultat.

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