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Excerpt from The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 6
Montreuil much resembling Sterne's Maria, and afterwards took a public house at Calais. The dead donkey, the heart-broken Maria, the grisette at the glove-shop, the fille de chambre, so pretty and petite, are all declared to be no invention Of Yorick's. Doubtless this is so, but the details that Scott gave cannot be true. Scott found them in a miscellany of anecdotes called An Olio by William Davis, the bib liographer. Davis, we are asked to believe, met La Fleur at Calais and received direct from him the' story Of the valet and his master. The bibliographer must have been imposed upon by a smart lackey who knew how to play himself Off on credulous Eng lishmen.
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