 tell him now, that to convince him both of
the certainty of it, and of my being fully acquainted with the Method, and also
fully satisfy'd in the probability of Success, he should first see me deliver
myself from the Necessity of going over at all, and then that I would go with
him freely, and of my own Choice, and perhaps carry enough with me to satisfy
him; that I did not offer it, for want of being able to live without Assistance
from him; but that I thought our mutual Misfortunes had been such, as were
sufficient to Reconcile us both to quitting this part of the World, and living
where no Body could upbraid us with what was past, and without the Agonies of a
condemn'd Hole to drive us to it, where we should look back on all our past
Disasters with infinite Satisfaction, when we should consider that our Enemies
should entirely forget us, and that we should live as new People in a new World,
no Body having any thing to say to us, or we to them.
    I press'd this Home to him with so many Arguments, and answer'd all his own
passionate Objections so effectually, that he embrac'd me, and told me, I
treated him with such a Sincerity, as overcame him; that he would take my
Advice, and would strive to submit to his Fate, in hope of having the Comfort of
so faithful a Counsellor, and such a Companion in his Misery; but still he put
me in mind of what I had mention'd before; Namely, that there might be some way
to get off, before he went, and that it might be possible to avoid going at all,
which he said would be much better: I told him he should see, and be fully
satisfy'd that I would do my utmost in that Part too, and if it did not succeed,
yet that I would make good the rest.
    We parted after this long Conference, with such Testimonies of Kindness and
Affection as I thought were Equal, if not Superior to that at our parting at
Dunstable; and now I saw more plainly the Reason why he then declin'd coming
with me toward London; and why when we parted there, he told me it was not
convenient for him to come to London with me, as he would otherwise have done: I
have observ'd that the Account of his Life, would have made a much more pleasing
History than this of mine; and indeed nothing in it, was more strange than this
