| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XXXVI. The blood of fair Adonis, Venus changed | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE BLOOD of fair ADONIS, VENUS changed | |
| Into a flower: who, whilst he did pursue | |
| In forest thick, where as he hunting ranged, | |
| The savage boar to kill; the boar him slew. | |
| Do thou the like, sweet Love! Do thou the same, | 5 |
| Whilst now my life doth languish, through thy power: | |
| And whilst my wound makes me for to remain | |
| Withouten blood, transform me to a flower! | |
| That where I, living, cannot; dead, I may; | |
| A lovèd flower in LAURA’s bosom stay. | 10 | | | |
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