«During all this time I was never joined
in profession of religion with any, but gave up myself to the Lord, having forsaken all evil company, taking leave of father and mother, and all other relations, and traveled up and down as a
stranger on the earth, which way the Lord inclined my heart; taking a chamber to myself
in the
town where I came, and tarrying sometimes more, sometimes less
in a place: for I durst not
stay long
in a place, being afraid both of professor and profane, lest, being a tender young man, I should be hurt by conversing much with either.