| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XXV. Gold upon gold, mine only Joy did plate | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | GOLD upon gold, mine only Joy did plate, | |
| Whilst She did dress her head by crystal glass: | |
| But whilst She looked on it, it sudden brake; | |
| So as, amazed thereat, much grieved She was; | |
| To whom I said, “To grieve thus, ’tis in vain: | 5 |
| Since what is broke, whole cannot be again. | |
| Look steadfastly, with both thine eyes on me! | |
| Who have my heart, through love, a glass new made.” | |
| She on my face looked; and herself did see: | |
| Wherewith contented th’roughly, thus She said, | 10 |
| “Most happy I! Since for to dress my head, | |
| For broken glass, of whole one I am sped.” | | | | |
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