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 interjection of the phrase "if ever" in the first line ("Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;") emphasizes the speaker's ultimate desire

A) that the recipient always be faithful to him
B) that the recipient try to improve their relationship
C) to prove himself worthy of this relationship
D) to respect the recipient's right to end the relationship
E) to rise to the recipient's high expectations