| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XXXII. White art thou, like the mountain-snow to see | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHITE art thou, like the mountain-snow to see; | |
| I Black, like to the burnèd coal do show: | |
| Then give some of thy purest white to me! | |
| And I’ll some of my black on thee bestow: | |
| So will we these two contraries unite | 5 |
| Together; which so joined, will show more fair. | |
| Let ’s both then make this change, for our delight; | |
| Unless to kill me, thou do little care! | |
| But why of White or Black, talk I to thee? | |
| My blood not black ’tis; which thou fain wouldst see. | 10 | | | |
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