Sufficeth that I have maintains my state
And sends the poor well pleased from my gate.
[♦] Cade. Here’s the lord of the soil come to seize me for [♦] a stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave. Ah, [25] villain, thou wilt betray me, and get a thousand crowns of the king by carrying my head to him: but I’ll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part.
Iden. Why, rude companion, whatsoe’er thou be,
30 I know thee not; why, then, should I betray thee?
Is’t not enough to break into my garden,
And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds,
Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner.
[♦] But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms?
[35] Cade. Brave thee! ay, by the best blood that ever was broached, and beard thee too. Look on me well: I have [♦] eat no meat these five days; yet, come thou and thy five [♦] men, and if I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail, I pray God I may never eat grass more.