| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | XXXI. Lady, thou seemest like Fortune unto me | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | LADY, thou seemest like FORTUNE unto me; | |
| When I most wistly mark, how thou dost go | |
| With golden tresses loose (a joy to see!); | |
| Which gentle wind about thy ears doth blow. | |
| And as thou her resemblest in this sort; | 5 |
| So dost thou in attire, and all thy port. | |
| Only thou wantest for thy swift right hand | |
| The rolling Wheel: and shadowing Veil to hide | |
| Those eyes; which, like Controllers, do command. | |
| But if thou long’st of these to be supplied, | 10 |
| Take me, thy prisoner, for to play this part! | |
| For my desire ’s the Wheel, the Veil ’s my heart. | | | | |
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