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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Laura—Part II

XXX. Love, ope my heart! Hot fire thou forth shall take

Robert Tofte (1561–1620)

LOVE, ope my heart! Hot fire thou forth shall take.

Open my LAURA’s! In it thou shalt find

Cold frost. Then of these two contraries make

But one; and that same one, frame thou more kind!

Of both our hearts, make but one loving heart!

And give it unto which thou please, of twain.

Give it to her! To her do it impart;

Or unto me! It skills not much the same.

I’ll doubt no more, when but one heart we have

Between us both: for this is all I crave.