POMPEY.
Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so.
ELBOW.
Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable man, prove it.
ESCALUS.
[To Angelo.] Do you hear how he misplaces?
POMPEY.
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 threepence; your honours have seen such dishes; they are not china dishes, but very good dishes—
ESCALUS.
Go to, go to. No matter for the dish, sir.
POMPEY.
No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in the right. But to the point. As I say, this Mistress Elbow, 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 give you threepence again—
FROTH.
No, indeed.
POMPEY.
Very well. You being then, if you be remembered, cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes—
FROTH.
Ay, so I did indeed.
POMPEY.
Why, very well. I telling you then, if you be remembered, 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—