| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | V. Great was the strife between the sun on high | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | GREAT was the strife between the sun on high | |
| And my fair Sun, when first she ’gan to ’pear, | |
| Who should exceed in brightest majesty; | |
| And show in sight of spacious world most clear. | |
| The sun did shine; but she did lighten bright, | 5 |
| And so his burning beams extinguished quite. | |
| Nay more, my Sun on sudden to the sun | |
| Sent light; and yet no light at all did want: | |
| Where else the other had been quite undone | |
| For lack of brightness; which with him was scant. | 10 |
| The beauty then the sun doth use to show, | |
| My Sun doth give; and from her, it doth grow. | | | | |
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