"But oh, remaine, and let thy christall lippe No more of this same cherrye water sippe." Sarcastic allusions are also not wanting; see, for instance, the cheerful inducement held out to Narcissus: "As true as Helen was to Menela, So true to you will bee thy Florida." And cf. the notes on ll. 337, 342. There are several facetious mistakes in the forms of words, such as _spoone_ for moon (l. 350), _Late-mouse_ for Latmus (l. 279), and _Davis_ for Davus (l. 400); of which the first recalls Ancient Pistol's "Cannibals" (2 _Henry IV._ ii. 4, 180), or the contrary slip in _Every Man in his Humour_, iii. 4, 53, and the two latter, Bottom's "Shafalus" and "Procrus," and the blunders of Costard. The naïve devices by which the players seem to have made up for some paucity of accoutrements and stage appliances, and their direct appeals to the intelligence of the audience to excuse all defects, are highly edifying. There is, as I have before remarked, no indication of any scenery; and the only characters whom we know to have worn a special dress are Tiresias and Liriope. The prophets of classical history were often converted into bishops by English writers; so, for example, Helenus, son of Priam, in the fourteenth century alliterative _Gest Hystoriale of Troy_. This is why Tiresias wears a bishop's rochet. It is unfortunate that the collection of robes now in the possession of St. John's College does not include a garment of this description. Liriope has a symbolical costume, which she very carefully interprets to Narcissus: "And I thy mother nimphe, as may bee seene By coulours that I weare, blew, white, and greene; For nimphes ar of the sea, and sea is right Of coulour truly greene and blew and white. Would you knowe how, I pray? Billowes are blew, Water is greene, and foome is white of hue." Cephisus is content to carry the emblems of his origin, which he emphasizes at the same time by representative action: "Thy father I, Cephisus, that brave river Who is all water, doe like water shiver. As any man of iudgment may descrye By face, hands washt, and bowle, thy father I." In the same way Narcissus, rising up after his supposed death, bears a daffodil as a sign of his metamorphosis, addressing the audience after a manner more brusque than polite: "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, and so I am in trothe, As may appeare by the flower in my mouthe." Echo gives her reasons somewhat confidentially: "But ho, the hobby horse, youle think't absurde That I should of my selfe once speake a woord. 'Tis true; but lett your wisdomes tell me than, How'de you know Eccho from another man?" And at the conclusion of the play she kindly directs the imagination of the spectators into the right channel: "Now auditors of intelligence quicke, I pray you suppose that Eccho is sicke"----