| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | I. Fortune, cross-friend to ever-conquering Love | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | FORTUNE, cross-friend to ever-conquering Love, | |
| Our bodies, Lady, hath divided far; | |
| But yet our constant minds she cannot move, | |
| Which over-strong for her devices are. | |
| Woe’s me! in England thou dost bide, and I, | 5 |
| Scarce shadow of my self, in Italy. | |
| But let her do her worst, and what is frail | |
| And mortal seek to separate and undo; | |
| Yet what immortal is, she never shall! | |
| A string too high for her to reach unto. | 10 |
| In spite of envious seeds, by malice sown, | |
| My heart shall aye be thine; and mine, thine own! Padoa. | | | | |
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