| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | II. What crimson gown, with drops of blood ywrought | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHAT crimson gown, with drops of blood ywrought, | |
| Which LAURA wears, a token is most true, | |
| How that of blood desirous is her thought: | |
| And that ’tis so, I best can tell to you. | |
| My wrongèd heart too well doth find the same; | 5 |
| Who, thousand times, not once, hath wrongèd been | |
| By her: and, now, to aggravate my pain, | |
| (More cruel in desire for to be seen), | |
| By outward habit [dress] covets She to show | |
| What, inward, in her mind She hides below. | 10 | | | |
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