| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XIII. Painter, in lively colours draw Disdain! | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | PAINTER, in lively colours draw Disdain! | |
| Dost ask, How that may rightly shadowed be? | |
| I’ll tell thee. If thou, fine, wilt do the same; | |
| My Lady paint! and thou Disdain shalt see. | |
| Fond man! dost not believe? or think’st I jest? | 5 |
| If doubtful thou remain, then hear the rest! | |
| Mark her but well; and thou shalt, in her face, | |
| See right Disdain: which, coming from her eyes, | |
| Makes her to look with most disdainful grace; | |
| Then if thou seest it, in so plain a guise, | 10 |
| Straight shadow [paint] her! For this one counterfeit [picture] | |
| Of her, and of Disdain, shall show the shape. | | | | |
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