| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XII. Drawn, cunning Painter, hast thou with great art | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | DRAWN, cunning Painter, hast thou with great art, | |
| The Shadow [Image] of my lovely LAURA fair; | |
| Which object sweet not smally joys my heart: | |
| But little didst thou think, nor wast thou ’ware, | |
| That where thou thought’st my fancy for to please, | 5 |
| Effect contrary sorts to my desire: | |
| So that it breeds, in body mine, unease; | |
| And, senseless, burns my heart with feeling fire. | |
| O strange success! What made was for content | |
| Doth most displease; and, lifeless, doth torment. | 10 | | | |
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