Complete this quote from Don Quixote: "Here one curses her and calls her capricious, fickle, and immodest, there another condemns her as frail and frivolous; this pardons and absolves her, that spurns and ________ her; one extols her beauty, another assails her character, and in short all abuse her.... there are some who complain of her scorn ... and even some that bewail and mourn the raging fever..."
a) adores
b) criticizes
c) ridicules
d) vilifies