Sailing Away

" That I should never settle to any thing 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 to late to go Apprentice to a Trade,
or a 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"