Gulliver's Travels

After the ships were brought to the King of Lilliput, what did the King tell Gulliver he wanted to do?

After the ships were brought to the King of Lilliput, what did the King tell Gulliver he wanted to do?

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The King wanted Gulliver to capture the rest of his enemy's ships and bring him those as well. He refused.

"His majesty desired I would take some other opportunity of bringing all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports. And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big-endian exiles, and compelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world. But I endeavoured to divert him from this design, by many arguments drawn from the topics of policy as well as justice; and I plainly protested, “that I would never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people into slavery.” And, when the matter was debated in council, the wisest part of the ministry were of my opinion."

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Gulliver's Travels