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+\hoffset=-1in \advance\hoffset2cm \voffset=\hoffset
+\hsize=17cm \vsize=26cm
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+\font\tenrm=frcr12
+\font\bold=frcbx12
+\font\calligraphic=frcbx17
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+\tenrm\baselineskip=21.75pt
+
+\centerline{\calligraphic Robinson Crusoe}
+\smallskip\centerline{by Daniel Defoe}
+
+\bigskip
+
+\centerline{\bold Chapter One}
+
+\medskip
+
+I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family,
+though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who
+settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving
+off his trade lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my
+mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a good family in that
+country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznear; but by the
+usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call
+ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe, and so my companions always
+called me.
+
+I had two elder brothers, one of which was lieutenant-colonel to an
+English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous
+Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the
+Spaniards; what became of my second brother I never knew, any more than
+my father and mother did know what was become of me.
+
+Being the third son of the family, and not bred to any trade, my head
+began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who
+was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as
+house-education and a country free school generally goes, and designed
+me for the law, but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea;
+and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the
+commands, of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions
+of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal
+in that propension of nature tending directly to the life of misery
+which was to befall me.
+
+My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel
+against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into
+his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulated very
+warmly with me upon this subject. He asked me what reasons more than a
+mere wandering inclination I had for leaving my father's house and my
+native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of
+raising my fortunes by application and industry, with a life of ease and
+pleasure. He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand,
+or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon
+adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in
+undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were
+all either too far above me, or too far below me; that mine was the
+middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life,
+which he had found by long experience was the best state in the world,
+the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and
+hardships, the labor and sufferings, of the mechanic part of mankind,
+and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the
+upper part of mankind. He told me I might judge of the happiness of
+this state by one thing, viz., that this was the state of life which all
+other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable
+consequences of being born to great things, and wished they had been
+placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the
+great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this as the just standard
+of true felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.
+
+He bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of
+life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the
+middle station had the fewest disasters and was not exposed to so many
+vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind. Nay, they were not
+subjected to so many distempers and uneasiness either of body or mind as
+those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagancies on one
+hand, or by hard labor, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient
+diet on the other hand, bring distempers upon themselves by the natural
+consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was
+calculated for all kind of virtues and all kind of enjoyments; that
+peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that
+temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable
+diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending
+the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly
+through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embarrassed with the
+labors of the hands or of the head, not sold to the life of slavery for
+daily bread, or harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the
+soul of peace, and the body of rest; not enraged with the passion of
+envy, or secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but in easy
+circumstances sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting the
+sweets of living, without the bitter, feeling that they are happy, and
+learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly.
+
+After this, he pressed me earnestly, and in the most affectionate
+manner, not to play the young man, not to precipitate myself into
+miseries which Nature and the station of life I was born in seemed to
+have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my
+bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavor to enter me fairly
+into the station of life which he had been just recommending to me; and
+that if I was not very easy and happy in the world it must be my mere
+fate or fault that must hinder it, and that he should have nothing to
+answer for, having thus discharged his duty in warning me against
+measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would
+do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he
+directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes, as to
+give me any encouragement to go away. And to close all, he told me I
+had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same
+earnest persuasions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars,
+but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the
+army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray
+for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this
+foolish step, God would not bless me, and I would have leisure hereafter
+to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to
+assist in my recovery.
+
+I observed in this last part of his discourse, which was truly
+prophetic, though I suppose my father did not know it to be so himself -
+I say, I observed the tears run down his face very plentifully, and
+especially when he spoke of my brother who was killed; and that when he
+spoke of my having leisure to repent, and none to assist me, he was so
+moved that he broke off the discourse, and told me his heart was so full
+he could say no more to me.
+
+I was sincerely affected with this discourse, as indeed who could be
+otherwise? and I resolved not to think of going abroad any more, but to
+settle at home according to my father's desire. But alas! a few days
+wore it all off; and, in short, to prevent any of my father's farther
+importunities, in a few weeks after I resolved to run quite away from
+him. However, I did not act so hastily neither as my first heat of
+resolution prompted, but I took my mother, at a time when I thought her
+a little pleasanter than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so
+entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to
+anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had
+better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was
+now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade,
+or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did, I should never serve
+out my time, and I should certainly run away from my master before my
+time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let
+me go but one voyage abroad, if I came home again and did not like it, I
+would go no more, and I would promise by a double diligence to recover
+that time I had lost.
+
+This put my mother into a great passion. She told me she knew it would
+be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he
+knew too well what was my interest to give his consent to anything so
+much for my hurt, and that she wondered how I could think of any such
+thing after such a discourse as I had had with my father, and such kind
+and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that,
+in short, if I would ruin myself there was no help for me; but I might
+depend I should never have their consent to it; that for her part, she
+should not have so much hand in my destruction, and I should never have
+it to say, that my mother was willing when my father was not.
+
+Though my mother refused to move it to my father, yet, as I have heard
+afterwards, she reported all the discourse to him, and that my father,
+after showing a great concern at it, said to her with a sigh, "That boy
+might be happy if he would stay at home, but if he goes abroad he will
+be the miserablest wretch that was ever born: I can give no consent to
+it."
+
+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 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 sea-faring men, viz., that it should cost me
+nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor 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.
+
+\bye