| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XVII. “Sweet Laura, in the water look no more | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | “SWEET LAURA, in the water look no more, | |
| To see if feature thine be fair or no! | |
| Look in mine eyes! which tears rain streaming sore | |
| Of bitter plaints; whose water clear doth show, | |
| As in a looking-glass, most bright to thee, | 5 |
| Those favours which in that sweet visage be.” | |
| So said I to her: when She answered blive, | |
| “And thou, my Love! say, Dost thou likewise wish | |
| To see thyself in one that is alive? | |
| Then in this breast, look where thine image is! | 10 |
| Love shall alike in both our bodies rest: | |
| Bear thou me in thine eyes; I’ll thee in breast!” | | | | |
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