How I came to overlook so obvious an objection, is to me amazing; but certain it is I overlooked it 'This scheme thus blown up, I had some thoughts of fairly shipping back to England again; but happening into company with an Irish student, who was returning from Louvain, our conversation turning upon topics of literature, (for by the way it may be observed that I always forgot the meanness of my circumstances when I could converse upon such subjects) from him I learned that there were not two men in his whole university who understood Greek.

This amazed me.

I instantly resolved to travel to Louvain, and there live by teaching Greek; and in this design I was heartened by my brother student, who threw out some hints that a fortune might be got by it.

'I set boldly forward the next morning.

Every day lessened the burthen of my moveables, like Aesop and his basket of bread; for I paid them for my lodgings to the Dutch as I travelled on.
When I came to Louvain, I was resolved not to go sneaking to the lower professors, but openly tendered my talents to the principal himself.
I went, had admittance, and offered him my service as a master of the Greek language, which I had been told was a desideratum in his university.