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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Laura—Part I

VI. Turned to a stone was he that did bewray

Robert Tofte (1561–1620)

TURNED to a stone was he that did bewray,

Unwitting, to the crafty thief himself

The theft; not thinking he had stolen the prey,

In hope to gain a little paltry pelf.

So I, who unawares to cruel Thee,

The robber of my heart, confessed the theft;

A senseless stone like BATTUS am to see:

Only in this unlike that shape bereft,

That where to worthless stone he turnèd was;

I for a Touchstone true of Love do pass.