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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Laura—Part I

IV. In the Egean dangerous Sea of Love

Robert Tofte (1561–1620)

IN the Egean dangerous Sea of Love,

In midst of faithless waves and wicked wind;

Where, to my cost, most bitter brunts I prove:

A new ARION, there, myself I find.

And though, as he, I play on harp and sing;

Yet cannot cunning mine so high aspire

As for to make the skipping fish me bring

Unto that wishèd shore I so desire.

Only my LAURA, peerless for to see,

May, in this troubled flood, my dolphin be!