| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | V. If thou art cold, as is the Winter’s snow | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | IF thou art cold, as is the Winter’s snow; | |
| I, as the Summer, hot am most extreme: | |
| Then let ’s unite thy heart, which cold is so, | |
| To mine so warm; and make of both a mean! | |
| So th’ one a help to th’ other still shall be; | 5 |
| And linked in concord, as two doves shall ’gree. | |
| To form this frame, LOVE shall the workman play. | |
| Then let ’s with July, January mix! | |
| Let ’s make, between us, an eternal May! | |
| An everlasting truce, twain betwix! | 10 |
| Thy Winter, with my Summer let us join! | |
| My fire so warm, with frost so cold of thine! | | | | |
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