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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Laura—Part I

XXXIX. Seated on marble was my Lady blithe

Robert Tofte (1561–1620)

SEATED on marble was my Lady blithe,

Holding in hand a crystal looking-glass;

Marking of Lovers thousands; who alive,

Thanks only to her beauty rare, did pass.

To pry in glasses likes her: but afterward

She takes the nature of the stone most hard.

For whilst she cheerfully doth fix her eyes,

Gazing upon the brightness of the one;

Her heart, by th’ other ’s made, in strangy wise,

Hard as a rock and senseless as a stone:

So that if Love this breaketh not in twain;

It will a flint become, to others’ pain.