| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XX. The snakes, amongst themselves, so carefully | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE SNAKES, amongst themselves, so carefully | |
| Love one another, wonder for to see! | |
| As if th’ one want, the other straight doth die. | |
| Lady, unto these snakes unlike we be! | |
| For if I die, thou diest not for my death; | 5 |
| But, through my pain revivest! Such is thy spite! | |
| And pleasure tak’st to see me void of breath. | |
| Ah, yet in love let ’s unto them be like! | |
| Thou CUPID, work! that I, poor snake in love, | |
| This ’sdainful snake for to be kind may move. | 10 | | | |
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