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THE

LIFE and OPINIONS

OF

TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent.


CHAP. I.

——— But softly—for in these sportive plains, and under this genial sun, where at this instant all flesh is running out piping, fiddling, and dancing to the vintage, and every step that's taken, the judgment is surprised by the imagination, I defy, notwithstandingall