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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Laura—Part III

II. What crimson gown, with drops of blood ywrought

Robert Tofte (1561–1620)

WHAT crimson gown, with drops of blood ywrought,

Which LAURA wears, a token is most true,

How that of blood desirous is her thought:

And that ’tis so, I best can tell to you.

My wrongèd heart too well doth find the same;

Who, thousand times, not once, hath wrongèd been

By her: and, now, to aggravate my pain,

(More cruel in desire for to be seen),

By outward habit [dress] covets She to show

What, inward, in her mind She hides below.