Transcriber's note
Variable, archaic or unusual spelling and punctuation have been retainedapart from minor punctuation inconsistencies which have been silentlycorrected. A list of other changes made can be found at the end of the book.
The Tudor Library.
NARCISSUS, A TWELFE NIGHT
MERRIMENT.
*** Five hundred copies of this Edition are printed.
A
TWELFE NIGHT MERRIMENT.
Anno 1602.
NARCISSUS
A TWELFE NIGHT MERRIMENT
PLAYED BY YOUTHS OF THE PARISH
AT
THE COLLEGE OF S. JOHN THE BAPTIST
IN OXFORD, A.D. 1602
WITH APPENDIX
NOW FIRST EDITED FROM A BODLEIAN MS.
BY
MARGARET L. LEE
OF S. HUGH'S HALL, OXFORD
LONDON
PUBLISHED BY David Nutt IN THE STRAND
MDCCCXCIII
CHISWICK PRESS:—C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
INTERLOQUUTORES.
| 1.Tyresias. | 6. Eccho. |
| 2.Cephisus. | 7.Lyriope. |
| 3. Narcissus. | 8.Florida. |
| 4.Dorastus. | 9.Clois. |
| 5.Clinias. | 10.The Well. |
| 11. Porter. | |
PREFACE.
N editing the hitherto unpublished play of Narcissus, together withthe three speeches and the letter composed for Francis Clarke, porter ofS. John's, I have retained throughout the very irregular spelling of theMS. The punctuation and use of capital letters have, however, beenmodernized, the contractions employed for the, which, with, what, andcertain prefixes, expanded, and a few obviously scribal errors correctedin the text, the notes supplying in every such case the original MS.reading.
In bringing to its conclusion a work which now seemseven less satisfactorily performed than I once hoped itmight be, there is at least a pleasure in recording thanksto all those who have interested themselves on my behalf,and aided me with sug