JONATHAN SWIFT
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: PASSAGE No 2
created by Savino Carrella

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Soon after my from Leyden, I was recommended, my good master Mr. Bates, to be surgeon the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannell commander; with I continued three years and a , making a voyage or two the Levant, and some other parts. When I came back, I to settle in London, to Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and him I was recommended to patients. I took part of a small house in the Old Jury; and advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, whom I received four hundred pounds a portion.
But, my good master Bates dying in two years , and I having few friends, my began to fail; my conscience would not me to imitate the bad practice of too many my brethren. Having therefore with my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I to go again to sea. I was successively in two ships, and several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by I got some addition my fortune.