| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XXI. The Grecians used to offer up their hair | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE GRECIANS used to offer up their hair | |
| Unto their rivers: whom they did esteem | |
| As mighty gods; and them great honour bare, | |
| As if no virtue small in them had been. | |
| Do thou the like, sweet LAURA, unto me! | 5 |
| Who, for my love, deserves a greater fee. | |
| Thy golden tresses on me do bestow! | |
| Who hold whole rivers flowing in mine eyes: | |
| Yet would not I, thou off shouldst cut them though. | |
| Dost muse? and ask, How this thou may’st devise? | 10 |
| I’ll tell thee. Give thyself to me for mine! | |
| So shalt thou give, uncut, thy tresses fine. | | | | |
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