| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XXXVII. If scalding sighs, my faith may testify | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | IF scalding sighs, my faith may testify; | |
| And brinish tears, of love may warrant be: | |
| Both th’ one and th’ other thou hast seen with eye! | |
| Then what wouldst have, hard hearted! more of me? | |
| But thou, perhaps, though much I have endured, | 5 |
| Wouldst yet be better of my faith assured. | |
| Then with thine eyes, into my breast do peer! | |
| Which, for the nonce, I leave to open sight; | |
| And that which now thou doubt’st, see shalt thou clear. | |
| Ah, mark it then; and view what shows so bright! | 10 |
| But too too cruel art thou, and precise; | |
| That will not credit give to thine own eyes! | | | | |
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