Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
LauraPart IIV. In the Egean dangerous Sea of Love
Robert Tofte (15611620)I
In midst of faithless waves and wicked wind;
Where, to my cost, most bitter brunts I prove:
A new A
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 L
May, in this troubled flood, my dolphin be!