![]() All of Chapter 9 and everything relating to hobby-horses are included in the offer the rest of the book is dedicated to the moon. The Dedication is brand-new, never offered to anyone before it is for sale for 50 guineas, and the money is to be paid to him in care of the publisher. He does feel, however, that important people ("my Lord, like yourself") should do these things in moderation, and he proceeds to write a Dedication to the "My Lord" he has been addressing. Tristram has several hobby-horses of his own, in fact. ![]() Tristram admits that even the wisest men, "not excepting Solomon himself," had their whims and their hobby-horses (i.e., hobbies), and as long as a man "rides his hobby-horse peaceably," it's nobody else's business. The license is a formal document, overly formal, and the language used in it was the whim of the lawyer Didius. ![]() He hopes, however, that he and the reader will get to know each other better, mainly so that the reader will have confidence in his way of telling his story he may seem to be clowning, but he asks the reader to give him "credit for a little more wisdom than appears upon" his outside and to keep his temper.Ī poor widow who lived in their village was helped with a midwife's license by the parson, who paid for it himself as a service to the community. The when of his birth having been dealt with, Tristram now promises to go into the how. ![]()
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