| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XXXIX. Th’ immortal Parcæ, fatal Sisters three | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | TH’ IMMORTAL PARCÆ, fatal Sisters three, | |
| Of mortal men, do sing the shunless fate: | |
| What once Was, what Is now, and what Shall Be; | |
| Their life, their death, their fortune, and their state. | |
| Our Song let be like theirs! for Three they were; | 5 |
| And so our number is. Three are we here. | |
| Sing LAURA then! Sing LOVE! and sing will I! | |
| Of dreary fortune mine, sing let us all! | |
| Let ’s sing in doleful tune most mournfully, | |
| How ’Tis, how ’Twas, and hapless still Shall fall; | 10 |
| The Present, Past, and (which none can mend) | |
| What Shall Be, world to come, withouten end. | | | | |
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