| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | VI. Lady, what time I seek in mournful note | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | LADY, what time I seek in mournful note | |
| To show mine agonies and bloody moan, | |
| My Voice doth fail; and hoarse and harsh my throat: | |
| And this doth come through you, through you alone | |
| The whilst I think, by means of you in Song, | 5 |
| To mitigate some part of this my smart; | |
| Instead thereof, you do me double wrong: | |
| And with a glance you take away my Heart. | |
| So that I find great hurt by this your theft: | |
| Since where, before but Voice, now Heart, ’s bereft. | 10 | | | |
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