| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | XIX. Lady, the sun was in Aquarius | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | LADY, the sun was in Aquarius | |
| When thou wert born; which is the reason why | |
| The water of my plaints delight thee thus; | |
| Without once viewing me with piteous eye. | |
| But when as I was born, the Sign I guess | 5 |
| In Cancer was; a show of my distress. | |
| This is the cause, within my boiling breast | |
| Doth burn a hot and unextinguished fire: | |
| But contrary these Signs in us do rest; | |
| Nor do they well accord to my desire. | 10 |
| Far better had it been, Aquarius’s Sign | |
| Had happed to me; and Cancer’s had been thine! | | | | |
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