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第218章 Chapter LIV.(1)

I am so impatient to return to my own story, that what remains of young Le Fever's, that is, from this turn of his fortune, to the time my uncle Toby recommended him for my preceptor, shall be told in a very few words in the next chapter.--All that is necessary to be added to this chapter is as follows.--That my uncle Toby, with young Le Fever in his hand, attended the poor lieutenant, as chief mourners, to his grave.

That the governor of Dendermond paid his obsequies all military honours,--and that Yorick, not to be behind-hand--paid him all ecclesiastic--for he buried him in his chancel:--And it appears likewise, he preached a funeral sermon over him--I say it appears,--for it was Yorick's custom, which Isuppose a general one with those of his profession, on the first leaf of every sermon which he composed, to chronicle down the time, the place, and the occasion of its being preached: to this, he was ever wont to add some short comment or stricture upon the sermon itself, seldom, indeed, much to its credit:--For instance, This sermon upon the Jewish dispensation--Idon't like it at all;--Though I own there is a world of Water-Landish knowledge in it;--but 'tis all tritical, and most tritically put together.--This is but a flimsy kind of a composition; what was in my head when Imade it?

--N.B. The excellency of this text is, that it will suit any sermon,--and of this sermon,--that it will suit any text.----For this sermon I shall be hanged,--for I have stolen the greatest part of it. Doctor Paidagunes found me out. > Set a thief to catch a thief.--On the back of half a dozen I find written, So, so, and no more--and upon a couple Moderato; by which, as far as one may gather from Altieri's Italian dictionary,--but mostly from the authority of a piece of green whipcord, which seemed to have been the unravelling of Yorick's whip-lash, with which he has left us the two sermons marked Moderato, and the half dozen of So, so, tied fast together in one bundle by themselves,--one may safely suppose he meant pretty near the same thing.

There is but one difficulty in the way of this conjecture, which is this, that the moderato's are five times better than the so, so's;--show ten times more knowledge of the human heart;--have seventy times more wit and spirit in them;--(and, to rise properly in my climax)--discovered a thousand times more genius;--and to crown all, are infinitely more entertaining than those tied up with them:--for which reason, whene'er Yorick's dramatic sermons are offered to the world, though I shall admit but one out of the whole number of the so, so's, I shall, nevertheless, adventure to print the two moderato's without any sort of scruple.

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