| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | XXXII. Thou, merry, laugh’st, and pleasantly dost smile | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THOU, merry, laugh’st, and pleasantly dost smile: | |
| I woeful weep, and mestful sorrow still; | |
| Lest this thy mirth increasing, me beguile, | |
| And weave a web for me of greater ill. | |
| Too well perceive I this thy deep disdain, | 5 |
| By this thy feignèd looks and cloakèd glee. | |
| Thou of disaster mine art glad and fain; | |
| And fain my death, as basilisk, would’st see; | |
| Since that of war and ’bate this laughter is, | |
| And not of gentle peace and calmy bliss. | 10 | | | |
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