Page:Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.djvu/41



Y Father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons. He sent me to Emanuel-College in Cambridge at Fourteen years old, where I resided Three years, and applyedapplied [sic] myself close to my Studies: But the Charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty Allowance) being too great for a narrow Fortune, I was bound Apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent Surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years; and my Father now and then sending me small sums E