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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,

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.