It was not till almost a year after this that I broke loose,though in the meantime I continued obstinately deaf to all proposals of settling to business,and frequently expostulating with my father and mother about their being so positively determined against what they knew my inclinations prompted me to. But chestnut bailey button uggs size 9 being one day at hull,where I went casually,and without any purpose of making an elopement that time,but I say,being there,and one of my companions being going by sea to London in his father's ship and prompting me to go with them,with the common allurement of seafaring men,viz.that it should cost me nothing for my passage,I consulted neither father or mother any more,nor so much as sent them word of it;but leaving them to hear of it as they might,without asking god's blessing , or my father's ,without any consideration of circumstances or consequences and in an ill hour,God knows,on the first of September,1651,I went on board a ship bound for London.Never any young adventure's misfortunes,I believe,began sooner or continued longer than mine.The ship was no sooner gotten out of the Humber but the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner;and as I had never been at sea before,i was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in my mind.
I began now seriously to reflect upon what I had done,and how justly I was overtaken by the judgement of Heaven for my wicked leaving my father's house and abandoning my duty;all the good counsel of my parents,my father's tears and my mother's entreaties came now fresh into my mind,and my conscience,which was not yet come to the pitch of hardness to which it has been since,reproached me with the contempt of advice and the breach of my duty to god and my father.
