| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XX. Rich is the diamond, a gem of price | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | RICH is the diamond, a gem of price; | |
| Yet such the nature strange is of the same, | |
| That who the powder thereof drinks, straight dies: | |
| And, as if poison ’twere, doth take his bane. | |
| So thou another precious jewel art; | 5 |
| In name and nature not unmuch alike: | |
| Since death thou giv’st unto the loving heart; | |
| If but a kiss one sucks from thee most sweet. | |
| Whilst he doth swallow down his sugared bait; | |
| The joy ’s so great, it kills him through conceit. | 10 | | | |
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