| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | XVII. Rocked in a cradle, like as infants be | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | ROCKED in a cradle, like as infants be, | |
| When I was young, a little wanton child, | |
| Two dainty dugs did nourish life in me; | |
| Whilst oft on them, with teat in mouth, I smiled. | |
| Ah, happy I! thrice happy, might I say; | 5 |
| Whilst in that harmless state I then did stay. | |
| But now that I am come to man’s estate; | |
| Such dugs as nursed me in delight and joy | |
| Do seek my death, by poisonous sugared bait; | |
| Whose sight, without possession, breeds me ’noy. | 10 |
| So what, in childhood, causèd me to live; | |
| Now, in my youth, doth death unto me give. | | | | |
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