| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XXII. One lovely glance, which from the eyes did pass | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | ONE lovely glance, which from the eyes did pass | |
| Of Lady mine, hath changed my gentle heart | |
| From hardest diamond to brittle glass: | |
| And now again (unto my bitter smart), | |
| Through dreadful frown, she turns it suddenly | 5 |
| As ’twas before, from glass to diamond. | |
| So if She will, She may (and presently, | |
| As likes her) change me; who to her am bound. | |
| If cruel She; my heart is hard to break: | |
| If pitiful; ’tis gentle, brittle, weak. | 10 | | | |
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