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THE

LIFE and OPINIONS

OF

TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent,

1

L IF E
FE

AND

OPINIONS

O F

TRISTRAM SHANDY,

GENTLEMAN.

Dixero fi quid fortè jocosius, hoc mihi juris
Gum venia dabis.

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HOR.

Si quis calumnietur levius effe quam decet theologum, aut mordacius quam deceat Chrif tianum----non Ego, fed Democritus dixit.---ERASMUS.

VO L. VI.

LONDON:

Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DEHONDT, in the Strand, MDCCLXII.

1

LIFE and
and OPINIONS

OF

TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent.

CHAP. I.

WE

E'LL not ftop two moments, my dear Sir,-only, as we have got thro' these five volumes, (do, Sir, fit down upon a fet-they are better than nothing) let us just look back upon the country we have pass'd through..

What a wilderness has it been! and what a mercy that we have not both

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