| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | IX. When I did part from thee the other night | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHEN I did part from thee the other night; | |
| Methought a foul black dog, with ugly shape, | |
| Did follow me: and did me sore affright; | |
| And all the way did greedy on me gape. | |
| Nor I this cur, how he at me did howl, | 5 |
| Can well as yet forget, with chaps most foul. | |
| Then thinking of his colour, hateful black; | |
| Methought some ill, my thought did fear to come, | |
| And said within me, “Turn again, turn back! | |
| If forward thou dost go, thou art undone!” | 10 |
| Then pardon, Lady, if I back again | |
| Am come this night, with you for to remain. | | | | |
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