MEM. 'Tis as true an opinion as need be; for I remember it very readily now, that this time 49,000 years ago all we were in this very place, and your lordship judged the very same controversy, after the very same manner, in all respects and circumstances alike.
COM. SEN. 'Tis wondrous strange.
ANA. By the same token you held your staff in your right hand, just as you do now; and Master Phantastes stood wondering at you, gaping as wide as you see him.
PHA. Ay, but I did not give you a box on the ear, sirrah, 49,000 years ago, did I? [Snap.]
ANA. I do not remember that, sir.
PHA. This time Plato's twelvemonth to come, look you save your cheeks better.
COM. SEN. But what entertainment had we at court for our long staying?
MEM. Let's go, I'll tell you as we walk.
PHA. If I do not seem pranker[297] now than I did in those days, I'll be hanged.
[Exeunt omnes interiores Sensus: manet LINGUA.