| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XXXVI. With thousand bands of furious inward heat | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WITH thousand bands of furious inward heat, | |
| Love binds my soul; and burns my gentle heart: | |
| And, two ways, LAURA, death to me doth threat | |
| With Colour fresh; and wanton Eye, like dart. | |
| This for reward for all my love I gain. | 5 |
| For my goodwill, two enemies I have: | |
| LAURA and Love. Four plagues conspire my pain, | |
| Because I like; and what ’s but just, do crave: | |
| Fire, roseal Colour, Eyes, and cruel Band. | |
| These, at the gaze of Beauty, make me stand. | 10 | | | |
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