Scene VIII. consists of a dialogue between Dorastus and Echo.
Scene IX. continues the same theme, Clinias being substituted for Dorastus. Both these scenes are interpolations, introduced evidently for the amusement of the audience rather than for any bearing on the main plot.
Scene X. Here Narcissus delivers himself of a soliloquy, suggested by Met. iii. 479:
"Forte puer, comitum seductus et agmine fido,
Dixerat"—
He is answered by Echo, who wishes to proffer him her affection. The conversation, gathered from Ovid, runs as follows:
"Ecquis adest?
Adest.
Veni!
Veni!
Quid me fugis?
Quid me fugis?
Huc Coëamus!
Coeämus!"
This, with various amplifications, is followed in ll. 602-630 of the Narcissus.
Here, however, there is no reproduction of Ovid's account:
"Et verbis favet ipsa suis, egressaque silvis
Ibat, ut injiceret sperato brachia collo.
Ille fugit, fugiensque manus complexibus aufert."
which leads on to and explains the next speech of Narcissus: