| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | V. If what is heavy craves the Centre base | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | IF what is heavy craves the Centre base; | |
| The earth below, as Nature wills the same: | |
| Heavy the woeful griefs are, in this case, | |
| Which inward in my heart I do sustain. | |
| And if what ’s light, by kind, aloft doth mount: | 5 |
| Then light ’s my love with thee, of light account. | |
| So that in doubtful dangerous extreme, | |
| Wretch that I am! myself am sore afraid: | |
| And doubt of thee, so far from Golden Mean; | |
| Nor know I well out of this depth to wade. | 10 |
| Lest that my life be shortened, or I die; | |
| Whether it heavy, falls; or light, ascends on high. | | | | |
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