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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

THROUGH

FRANCE AND ITALY.

BY

MR. Y O RICK.

VOL. I I.

A NEW EDITION.

LEIPZIG:

Committed to A. F. BoEH ME.

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HAT the old French officer had delivered upon travelling, bring

ing Polonius's advice to his fon upon the fame fubject into my head-and that bringing in Hamlet; and Hamlet, the reft of Shakespear's works, I flopp'd at the Quai de Conti in my return home, to purchase the whole fet.

The bookfeller faid he had not a fet in the world-Comment! faid I; taking one up out of a fet which lay upon the counter betwixt us. He faid, they

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were fent him only to be got bound, and were to be fent back to Versailles in the morning to the Count de B--.

too.

-And does the Count de B, faid I, read Shakespear? C'est un Efprit fort, replied the bookfeller.-He loves English books; and what is more to his honour, Monfieur, he loves the English You fpeak this fo civilly, faid I, that 'tis enough to oblige an Englishinan to lay out a Louis d'or or two at your fhop-The bookfeller made a bow, and was going to fay fomething, when a young decent girl of about twenty, who by her air and dress feemed to be fille de chambre to fome devout woman of fashion, came into the fhop and asked for Les Egarements du Coeur et de l'Efprit: the bookfeller gave her the book directly; fhe pulled out a little green fattin purfe run round with a rib

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