Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Laura—Part IXIX. Lady, the sun was in Aquarius
Robert Tofte (1561–1620)L
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
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.
Far better had it been, Aquarius’s Sign
Had happed to me; and Cancer’s had been thine!