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<TEI.2> <teiHeader> <filedesc> <titleStmt> <title type="245">Lawrence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy</title> <author>Sterne, Lawrence</author> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <distributor>Oxford Text Archive</distributor> <idno>SternTrist</idno> <availability><p>Available to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students through UMLibText. Also available from the Oxford Text Archive.</availability> <date>February 1995</date></publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblfull> <titleStmt> <title>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy</title> <author>Sterne, Lawrence</author> </titleStmt> <editionStmt><edition>Signet Classic</edition></editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <publisher> New American Library</publisher><pubplace>New York</pubplace> <date>1962</date></publicationStmt> </biblfull> </sourceDesc> </filedesc> <profileDesc> <creation><date>1759-1766</date></creation> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change><date> February 1995 </date> <respStmt><name>Jeff Chisa</name><res . . .
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<Text id=SteTrSh> <Author>Sterne, Lawrence</Author> <Title>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy</Title> <Edition>Signet Classic. New York: New American Library, 1962.</Edition> <Date>1759-1766</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>SteTrSh7</locdoc><milestone n=7> <p> To the Right Honourable <p> Mr. PITT <p> SIR, <p>Never poor Wight of a Dedicator had less hopes from his Dedication than I have from this of mine; for it is written in a bye corner of the kingdom, and in a retired thatched house, where I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles,----- but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of Life. <p>I humbly beg, Sir, that you will honour this book by taking it----(not under your Protection,-----it must protect itself, but)-----into the country with you; where, if I am ever told it has made you smil . . .
