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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
It is not my intention, as is common among writers of travels, to entertain my readers with an account of my birth, parentage, and education. For what is it to them, whether I was born in the north or south of England, whether my father was a fat man or a lean one, a cobler or a person of an independent fortune; or whether I was born on a Sunday or a Monday? when at the same time, perhaps, it does not signify whether I had ever been born at all. However, it will be necessary to say thus much of myself; that I was born a younger brother, and met with the same fate that those gentry generally do, viz. to starve for want; while he that has the good luck to come into the world first, is riding in his coach and six.
’Tis true, I had a small fortune, about the quarter of one year's income of the estate, but it did not last long; and when that was gone, by being burthensome to my relations, they soon grew tired of me; and ill-natured things being told them, such as, that if I had not been extravagant, I might have lived comfortably upon the interest of my fortune; that if a person cannot live within his circumstances, he ought to starve; and many others of the same kind: I say, through these means I was entirely deserted by them, and misery soon followed.
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