| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | III. Like to the blacksome Night, I may compare | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | LIKE to the blacksome Night, I may compare | |
| My Mistress’ gown, when darkness ’plays his prize: | |
| But her sweet face, like to the sun most fair; | |
| When he in glory ’ginneth to arise. | |
| Yet this no whit the other doth disgrace; | 5 |
| But rather doubleth Beauty in the place. | |
| Contraries like to these set opposite, | |
| So dainty and so pleasing in their show | |
| To lookers on, do breed no small delight; | |
| And pleasure great thereby to them doth grow. | 10 |
| O wonder strange! O solace sweet! to see | |
| In one self subject, Night and Day to be. | | | | |
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