| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | X. My mourning Mistress’s garments, black doth bear | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | MY mourning Mistress’s garments, black doth bear; | |
| And I in black, like her, attirèd am! | |
| Yet diverse is the cause why black we wear; | |
| She for another’s death doth shew the same. | |
| I for another reason bear this suit; | 5 |
| Only to show by this, my outward weed, | |
| Mine inward grief (although my tongue be mute) | |
| Of tender heart; which deadly sighs doth bleed. | |
| Thrice happy I, if, as in habit [dress] we | |
| Are both in one, our minds both one might be. | 10 | | | |
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