MEM. Ha, sirrah, what a brawling's here?
ANA. I do but give you an answer with, anon, sir.
MEM. You answer sweetly; I have called you three or four times one after another.
ANA. Sir, I hope I answered you three or four times, one in the neck of another. But if your good worship have lent me any more calls, tell me, and I'll repay them, as I'm a gentleman.
MEM. Leave your tattle. Had you come at first, I had not spent so much breath in vain.
ANA. The truth is, sir, the first time you called I heard you not: the second, I understood you not: the third, I knew not whether it were you or no: the fourth, I could not tell where you were, and that's the reason I answered so suddenly.
MEM. Go, sirrah: run: seek everywhere. I have lost my purse somewhere.
ANA. I go, sir. Go, sirrah, seek, run; I have lost; bring! here's a dog's life, with a pox! Shall I be always used like a water-spaniel? [Exit ANAMNESTES.
COM. SEN. Come, good Master Register, I wonder you be so late now-a-days.
MEM. My good lord, I remember that I knew your grandfather in this your place, and I remember your grandfather's great grandfather's grandfather's father's father; yet in those days I never remember that any of them could say that Register Memory ever broke one minute of his appointment.