85 Escal.Do you hear how he misplaces?
Pom. Sir, she came in great with child; and longing, saving your honour’s reverence, for stewed prunes; [sir], we had but two in the house, which at that very [distant] time stood, as it were, in a fruit-dish, a dish of some three-pence; 90 your honours have seen such dishes; they are not China dishes, but very good dishes,—
Escal. Go to, go to: no matter for the dish, sir.
Pom. No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in the right: but to the point. As I say, this Mistress Elbow, 95 being, as I say, with child, and being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for prunes; and having [but two] in the dish, as I said, Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could not II. 1.
100 give you three-pence again.
Froth. No, indeed.
Pom. Very well;—you being then, if you be remembered, cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes,—
Froth. Ay, so I did indeed.
Pom. Why, very well; I telling you then, if you be remembered, 105 that such a one and such a one were past cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept [very] good diet, as I told you,—
Froth. All this is true.
110 Pom. Why, very well, then,—