| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | IV. Shoot forth no more those darts from lightning eyes! | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | SHOOT forth no more those darts from lightning eyes! | |
| Unkind! Why seek’st to stop my fainting breath? | |
| Go, and invent some new kind exercise; | |
| New weapons seek wherewith me to offend! | |
| Play the right Tyrant! Choices use in death; | 5 |
| Whereby, I dying, content may rest thy will. | |
| But tell me? Wouldst so fain my life should end? | |
| And know’st not, Sweet extremes do sudden kill? | |
| Cruel, kiss me but once! and thou shalt see | |
| Ended my life with that same kiss to be. | 10 | | | |
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