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Duvid Mickwis

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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

THROUGH

FRANCE AND ITALY.

BY

MR. Y 0 R IC K.

VOL. I.

THE SECOND EDITION

IN GERMANY.

ALTENBURGH:

Printed for GOTTLOB EMANUEL RICHTER.

15.35

BRITISH LIBRARY

A

SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY,

&c. &c.

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HEY order, faid I, this matter better in France?

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-You have been in France? faid my gentlenan, turning quick upon me with the moft civil triumph in the world.-Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with myfelf, that one and twenty miles failing, for 'tis abfolutely no further from Dover to Calais, fhould give a inan thefe rights-I'll look into them: fo giving up the argument-I went ftraight to my lodgings, put up half a dozen fhirts and a black pair of filk breeches-the coat I have on, faid I, looking at the fleeve, will do, took a place in the Dover ftage; and the packet failing at nine the next morning-by three I had got fat down to my dinner upon a tricaffee'd chicken

fo inconteftably in France, that had I died that night of an indigeftion, the whole world could not have suspended the effects of the * Droits d'Aubaine my fhirts, and black pair of filk breeches-portmanteau and all must have gone to the king of France-even the little picture which I have fo long worn, and fo often have told thee, Eliza, I would carry with me into my grave, would have been torn from my neck.-Ungenerous!-to feize upon the wreck of an unwary paffenger, whom your fubjects had beckon❜d to their coaft-by heaven! SIRE, it is not well done; and much does it grieve me, 'tis the monarch of a people fo civilized and courteous, and fo renown'd for fentiment and fine feelings, that I have to reason with

But I have fcarce fet foot in your domi

nions

CALAIS.

All the effects of ftrangers, Swifs and Scotch excepted, dying in France, are feized by virtue of this law, tho' the heir be upon the fpot-the profit of these contingencies being farm'd, there is no redrefs.

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