| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | XXXIV. Changed is my nature in me; where before | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | CHANGED is my nature in me; where before | |
| I like was to a chilly freezing ice; | |
| I now a flame am, burning inward sore: | |
| And such a flame that burneth in such wise | |
| That if LOVE and my Mistress take no care | 5 |
| For this my hurt, my soul must quickly die. | |
| Yet one doth see (for both not blinded are!) | |
| The fire so hot doth burn, wherein I fry, | |
| That fierce PERILLUS’s boiling Bull of brass | |
| May unto this for icy substance pass. | 10 | | | |
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