Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
LauraPart IIIXXXVII. If scalding sighs, my faith may testify
Robert Tofte (15611620)I
And brinish tears, of love may warrant be:
Both th’ one and th’ other thou hast seen with eye!
Then what wouldst have, hard hearted! more of me?
But thou, perhaps, though much I have endured,
Wouldst yet be better of my faith assured.
Then with thine eyes, into my breast do peer!
Which, for the nonce, I leave to open sight;
And that which now thou doubt’st, see shalt thou clear.
Ah, mark it then; and view what shows so bright!
But too too cruel art thou, and precise;
That will not credit give to thine own eyes!