| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XI. In silver stream, on shallow fountain’s shelf | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | IN silver stream, on shallow fountain’s shelf, | |
| The lively image saw he in the same; | |
| Who was in love with shadow of himself: | |
| Through pride forgetful how his likeness came. | |
| Such one myself, by chance, I see to be; | 5 |
| When as in river I myself did see: | |
| Yet I myself, instead of loving, hate. | |
| And such strange hatred is this, and so strong; | |
| That while he, loving, died by justest Fate, | |
| Himself by seeing, whilst he himself did wrong: | 10 |
| I die will unto him contrary clean; | |
| ’Cause I, hating myself, myself too much have seen. | | | | |
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