LIF FE AND OPINIONS O F TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN. Dixero fi quid fortè jocofius, hoc mihi juris -- HOR. -Si quis calumnietur levius effe quam decet theo- VOL. V. ERASMUS. LOND Q N: Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. Dehondt, To the Right Honourable JOHN, Lord Viscount SPENCER. MY LORD, I Hambly beg leave to offer you these two Volumes; they are the best my talents, with fuch bad health as I have, could produce:had providence granted me a larger ftock of either, they had been a much more proper present to your Lordship. DEDICATION. I beg your Lordship will forgive me, if, at the fame time I dedicate this work to you, I join Lady SPENCER, in the liberty I take of infcribing the ftory of Le Fever in the fixth volume to her name; for which I have no other motive, which my heart has informed me of, but that the story is a humane one. 1 am, My Lord, Your Lordship's Moft devoted, LAUR. STERNE. |