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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Laura—Part I

XIX. Lady, the sun was in Aquarius

Robert Tofte (1561–1620)

LADY, the sun was in Aquarius

When thou wert born; which is the reason why

The water of my plaints delight thee thus;

Without once viewing me with piteous eye.

But when as I was born, the Sign I guess

In Cancer was; a show of my distress.

This is the cause, within my boiling breast

Doth burn a hot and unextinguished fire:

But contrary these Signs in us do rest;

Nor do they well accord to my desire.

Far better had it been, Aquarius’s Sign

Had happed to me; and Cancer’s had been thine!