The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The text is from the 1912 Everyman edition of Tristram Shandy . It reproduces the appearance of that edition, which may not be identical in design to editions printed in Sterne’s lifetime. Where this edition has an illustration of a tombstone, some editions have two consecutive black pages, placed immediately after “Alas, poor Yorick!” For the e-text, some line breaks were added to the Latin Excommunicatio to accommodate the alternative endings printed between lines.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them,
as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded
what they were about when they begot me; had they duly
consider’d how much depended upon what they were then
doing;——
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