| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | I. Who joys in love? The Heart alone, to see | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHO joys in love? The Heart alone, to see. | |
| Who languisheth in love? The Heart alone. | |
| Then is ’t a thing impossible for me | |
| To joy or languish: since I Heart have none. | |
| Withouten Heart! Then tell me, What am I? | 5 |
| Even bones and flesh united cunningly. | |
| The Soul, where is ’t? Love that hath ta’en away: | |
| My Body only resteth in his place. | |
| Deprived of Soul and Heart, how live? I say, | |
| I live, maintained by love, in this strange case. | 10 |
| O wonder strange, the Body live to see; | |
| The Heart and Soul in other place to be. Napoli. | | | | |
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