| 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; | 5 |
| 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! | 10 | | | |
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