Ralph. But where is the land, that to us you promised?

New. In faith, good fellows, my promise is performed.

Tom. By Gog's blood, I thought that it would be so.

New. This must you have, whe'r you will or no,

Or else fall to work with shovel and with spade;

For begging now must be your chiefest trade.

Ralph. Gog's heart, can I away[356] with this life?

To beg my bread from door to door?

I will rather cut my throat with a knife,

Than I will live thus beggarly and poor.