Serd Mickwis A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY. BY MR. YORICK. VOL. I. THE SECOND EDITION IN GERMANY. ALTENBURGH: Printed for GOTTLOB EMANUEL RICHTER. A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, &c. &c. -THEY order, faid I, this matter better in France? -You have been in France? said my gentleınan, turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph in the world. Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with myself, that one and twenty miles failing, for 'tis abfolutely no further from Dover to Calais, should give a ınan these rights-I'll look into them: so giving up the argument-I went straight to my lodgings, put up half a dozen shirts 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 stage; and the packet failing at nine the next morning-by three I had got fat down to my dinner upon a tricaffee'd chicken so inconteftably in France, that had I died that night of an indigeftion, the whole world could not have fufpended the effects of the * Droits d'Aubaine- my shirts, and black pair of filk breeches-portmanteau and all must have gone to the king of France-even the little picture which I have so long worn, and so 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 passenger, 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 so civilized and courteous, and so renown'd for fentiment and fine feelings, that I have to reason with |