ELBOW.
Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she spit in his
face, so she defied him.
CLOWN.
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?
CLOWN.
Sir, she came in great with child; and longing, — saving your
honour's reverence — for stew'd 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.
CLOWN.
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, —
