1 The company were, the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old grandmother.
2 I left fifteen hundred pounds with my wife, and fixed her in a good house at Redriff.
3 The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me.
4 Having therefore consulted with my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I determined to go again to sea.
5 But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.
6 I went straight to Redriff, where I arrived the same day at two in the afternoon, and found my wife and family in good health.
7 My wife run out to embrace me, but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be able to reach my mouth.
8 The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.
9 There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider.
10 I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer.
11 I continued at home with my wife and children about five months, in a very happy condition, if I could have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well.
12 When dinner was done, my master went out to his labourers, and, as I could discover by his voice and gesture, gave his wife strict charge to take care of me.
13 The only difficulty that remained, was to persuade my wife, whose consent however I at last obtained, by the prospect of advantage she proposed to her children.
14 I took leave of my wife, and boy and girl, with tears on both sides, and went on board the Adventure, a merchant ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, captain John Nicholas, of Liverpool, commander.
15 For instance, when I am at home, and dressed as I ought to be, I carry on my body the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen; the building and furniture of my house employ as many more, and five times the number to adorn my wife.
16 The treasurer took a fancy to be jealous of his wife, from the malice of some evil tongues, who informed him that her grace had taken a violent affection for my person; and the court scandal ran for some time, that she once came privately to my lodging.
17 I slept about two hours, and dreamt I was at home with my wife and children, which aggravated my sorrows when I awaked, and found myself alone in a vast room, between two and three hundred feet wide, and above two hundred high, lying in a bed twenty yards wide.
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