By Gog's blood, rather than I will it assay,
I will rob and steal, and keep the highway.
Tom. Well, Ralph Roister, seeing we be in this misery,
And labour we cannot, and to beg it is a shame;
Yet better it is to beg most shamefully,
Than to be hanged, and to thievery[357] ourselves frame.
New. Now, my masters, learn to beware;
But like will to like, quoth the Devil to the Collier.
Ralph. O Lord, why did not I consider before,
What should of roisting be the final end.