| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XXVI. The heavens begin, with thunder, for to break | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE HEAVENS begin, with thunder, for to break | |
| The troubled air; and to the coloured fields, | |
| The lightning for to spoil their pride doth threat. | |
| Each thing unto the furious tempest yields. | |
| And yet, methinks, within me I do hear | 5 |
| A gentle voice, hard at my heart, to say: | |
| “Fear nothing, thou; but be of merry cheer! | |
| Thou only safe, ’fore others all shalt stay. | |
| To save thee from all hurt, thy shield shalt be | |
| The shadow of the conquering Laural Tree.” Fano. | 10 | | | |
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