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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Laura—Part I

XXXIV. Changed is my nature in me; where before

Robert Tofte (1561–1620)

CHANGED is my nature in me; where before

I like was to a chilly freezing ice;

I now a flame am, burning inward sore:

And such a flame that burneth in such wise

That if LOVE and my Mistress take no care

For this my hurt, my soul must quickly die.

Yet one doth see (for both not blinded are!)

The fire so hot doth burn, wherein I fry,

That fierce PERILLUS’s boiling Bull of brass

May unto this for icy substance pass.