THE
LIFE and OPINIONS
OF
TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent.
CHAP. I.
I Have begun a new book, on purpose that I might have room enough to explain the nature of the perplexities in which my uncle Toby was involved, from the many discourses and interrogations about the siege of Namur, where he received his wound.
I must remind the reader, in case he has read the history of King William'swars,
