Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
LauraPart IXXI. Rankle the wound did in my head apace
Robert Tofte (15611620)R
When fairest She, to play the Surgeon came:
And whilst her snow-white hand did me the grace
To lay the plaster on, which healed the same,
A wonder strange! No sooner did she touch
The hurt; but it appeared to be none such.
Yet, woe is me, no sooner by that hand
Was healed in head my outward fest’ring wound;
But that instead of that, as countermand,
One mortal scar at inward heart I found.
Thus, L
She checks with Death, that ’fore gave Life for mate.
Venice.