A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE and ITALY. By MR. YORICK VOL. II. THE FOURTH EDITION, LONDON: Printed for JAMES FLEMING, Bookseller, in THE FILLE DE CHAMBRE, PARIS. THAT the old French officer had deli WHAT vered upon travelling, bringing Polonius's advice to his fon upon the same subject into my head and that bringing in Hamlet; and Hamlet, the reft of Shakespear's works, I ftopped 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 were fent him only to be got bound, and were to be fent back to Verfailles in the morning to the Count de B****. -And does the Count de B****, faid I, read Shakespear? Cft un Efpirit fort; replied the bookfeller. He loves English books; and what is more to his honour, Monfieur, he loves the English too. You fpeak this fo ciwilly, faid I, that it is enough to oblige an Englishman to lay out a Louis d'or or two at your shop---the bookfeller made a bow, and was going to say something, when a young decent girl of about twenty, who by her air and dress seemed to be fille de chambre to some devout woman of fashion, came into the shop and afked for Les Egarments de Cœur de l'Efprit: the bookfeller gave her the book directly; the pulled out a little green fattin purse run round with a ribband of the fame colour, and putting her finger and thumb into it, the took out the money, and paid for it. As I had nothing more to stay me in the fhop, we both walked out at the door together. And what have you to do, my dear, faid I, with The Wanderings of the Heart, who fcarce know yet you have one? nor till love has first told you it, or fome faithlefs fhepherd has made it ache, can't thou ever be fure it is fo.-Le Dieu m'en garde! faid the girl.-With reafon, |