| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | VII. When She was born; She came, with smiling eye | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHEN She was born; She came, with smiling eye, | |
| Laughing into the world, a sign of glee. | |
| When I was born; to her quite contrary, | |
| Wailing I came into the world to see. | |
| Then mark this wonder strange! What nature gave; | 5 |
| From first to th’ last, this fashion kept we have. | |
| She in my sad laments doth take great joy: | |
| I, through her laughing, die; and languish must, | |
| Unless that LOVE, to save me from this ’noy, | |
| Do unto me, unworthy, shew so just | 10 |
| As for to change her laughter into pain; | |
| And my complaints, into her joy again. | | | | |
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