| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XL. The heavens, their restless sphere do always move | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE HEAVENS, their restless sphere do always move. | |
| In thee doth move the faith, which thou didst plight. | |
| And I, IXION-like, still in my love | |
| Do roll; and yet I roll my wheel aright. | |
| So that, ’twixt us, continual motions wend. | 5 |
| But which is worse, unconstant Wench, I see! | |
| The heavens will have their motions without end; | |
| Which, never ceasing, roll continually: | |
| And thou, like them, to roll dost mean thy fill; | |
| And since ’tis so, I’ll roll too, against my will! | 10 | | | |
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