The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman · Laurence Sterne

Volume III, Chapter 89

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----BUT courage! gentle reader!----I scorn it----’tis enough to have thee in my power----but to make use of the advantage which the fortune of the pen has now gained over thee, would be too much----No----! by that all-powerful fire which warms the visionary brain, and lights the spirits through unworldly tracts! ere I would force a helpless creature upon this hard service, and make thee pay, poor soul! for fifty pages, which I have no right to sell thee,----naked as I am, I would browse upon the mountains, and smile that the north wind brought me neither my tent or my supper.

--So put on, my brave boy! and make the best of thy way to Boulogne._

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