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This is, with fome flight variations, Burton's 
tranflation of Servius’s letter. Sterne alters juft 
enough, to fhew that he had not attended to the 
original. Burton’s verfion follows. 
** Returning out of Afia, when I failed from ABgina 
toward Megara, I began to view the Country round about. 
fEgina was behind me, Megara before, Pyreus on the 
right hand, Corinth on the left; what  flourifhing toums 
heretofore, now profirate and overwhelmed before mine eyes? 
Alas, why are we men fo much difquieted with the departure 
of a friend, whofe life is much fhorter? When fo many 
goodly Cities lie burted before us. Remember, O. Servius, 
thou arta Man; and with that I was much confirm’d, and. 
corrected myfelf.” 
‘* My Son is dead,” fays Mr, Shandy, ‘‘ fo much 
“‘ the better,* *tis a fhame, in fuch a tempeft, to 
‘* have but one Anchor?” 
I—tut he was moft dear and loving friend, quoth 
Burton, my fole friend—Thou maift be afhamed, I fay . 
with Seneca, to confefs it, n fuch a tempeft as this, to 
have but one anchor. ° 
‘* But,” continues Mr. Shandy, “ he is gone for 
‘* ever from us! be it fo. He is got from under 
‘* the hands of his barber before he was bald. He 
‘* is but rifen from a feaft before he was furfeited— 
‘* from a banquet before he had got drunken. The 
** ‘Thracians wept when a child was born, and 
“* feafted and made merry when a man went 
** out 
* This is an aukward member of the fentence, 
