Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Book III, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“Under the tropic is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.”
Upon the Death of the Lord Protector; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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