| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XXIX. None dares now look more on my Laura’s face | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | NONE dares now look more on my LAURA’s face, | |
| So dangerous is her beauty to behold: | |
| For he no sooner gives to her the gaze; | |
| But straight his heart, She takes from him so bold. | |
| Such virtue ’s locked within those ebon eyes; | 5 |
| Where, dallying with Delight, Dan CUPID lies. | |
| So sweetly rolleth She that radiant sphere, | |
| As She, from whom She lists, robs suddenly: | |
| So as to look on her, each one doth fear; | |
| And yet to look on her, spare will not I! | 10 |
| For though I lose my Heart, and him disease. | |
| I like shall my Desire; and her I’ll please. | | | | |
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