| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | XIII. Whilst angry Juno, from the scowling skies | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHILST angry JUNO, from the scowling skies, | |
| Thick swinging showers did downward send amain; | |
| My Lady, mounting up in stately wise, | |
| From heaven more fast did fiery lightning rain. | |
| So that the people, passing, had less harm | 5 |
| By water wet, than by the fire o’erwarm. | |
| The water only wet their outward skin; | |
| A matter small, in which was danger none: | |
| But this her fire did burn their hearts within; | |
| And forced them, as they went, to sigh and groan. | 10 |
| So that their grief was greater, sans all doubt, | |
| To have within fire, than water, without. | | | | |
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