| 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, | 5 |
| 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. | 10 | | | |
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