Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answer. The following poem is addressed to a friend of the speaker.

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss:
(5) Ah, do not, when my heart has 'scaped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
(10) When other petty griefs have done their spite;
But in the onset come, so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune's might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.
(1609)

The poem as a whole is best described as

a) an argument
b) a clarification
c) an explanation
d) a plea
e) a reprimand