| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XIII. When first the cruel Fair deigned graciously | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHEN first the cruel Fair deigned graciously | |
| To look on me with kind and courteous view; | |
| And cast on me a lovely glancing eye: | |
| She knew not that I was her servant true. | |
| But She no sooner ’ware was of the same; | 5 |
| But that She turned her back with great disdain. | |
| So as the wound I then close bare in breast; | |
| I now, through grief, show outward in my face: | |
| But if that She, by whom I woundèd rest, | |
| Lives in compassion cold towards me, sans grace: | 10 |
| Hard hearted is She, cruel was She to her friend; | |
| And wicked shall be, world withouten end. | | | | |
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