Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
LauraPart IIIXVI. The golden tresses of a Lady fair
Robert Tofte (15611620)T
At first beginning were of this my love:
But now, at last, unto my double care,
To be the end of my sad life I prove.
Then did my doubtful spirit live in hope:
But now he fears, despairing as it were,
Because he doth perceive in sudden broke
His hope, which dying heart did help and bear;
Since that the hair, that Alpha me did bind
In love, of life the Omega I do find.