[Nar.] Thy frend I am, O doe not mee destroye;
Thou dost putt out thy hand as I doe mine, 710
And thou dost pinke vpon mee with thine eyen,
Smile as I smile; besides I tooke good keepe,
And saw thee eke shedd teares when I did weepe,
And by thy lippes moving, well I doe suppose
Woordes thou dost speake, may well come to our nose;
For to oure eares I am sure they never passe,
Which makes me to crye out, alas!
Ecc. Alas!
[Nar.] O delicate pretty youth,
Pretty youth; 720
Take on my woes pittye, youthe!
Pittye, youthe!
F. 67v rev.O sweetest boy, pray love mee!
Pray love mee!
Or els I dye for thee,
I dye for thee!
[Nar.] Colour is gone & bloud in face is thinne,
And I am naught left now but bone & skinne;
I dye; but though I dye it shall come to passe,
Certes it shall, that I which whilome was 730
The flower of youth, shalbee made flower againe.
I dye; farewell, O boy belov'd in vaine.
[Ecc.] O boy belov'd in vaine.
[Narcissus risinge vp againe.
And so I died & sunke into my grandam,
Surnamde old earth: lett not your iudgments randome,
For if you take mee for Narcissus y'are very sillye,
I desire you to take mee for a daffa downe dillye;
For so I rose, & so I am in trothe,
As may appeare by the flower in my mouthe.
Ecc. Now auditors of intelligence quicke, 740
I pray you suppose that Eccho is sicke;
Sicke at the hart, for you must thinke,
For lacke of love shee could nor eate nor drinke;
Soe that of her nothinge remainde but bone,
And that they say was turn'd into a stone.
F. 67r rev.Onely her voice was left, as by good happe
You may perceive if you imparte a clappe.
[Exit.