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 be?—How could it get into my Stevinus? A man must be as great a conjurer as Stevinus, said my father, to resolve the second question:—The first, I think, is not so difficult;—for unless my judgment greatly deceives me,—I know the author, for 'tis wrote, certainly, by the parson of the parish.

The similitude of the stile and manner of it, with those my father constantly had heard preach'd in his parish-church, was the ground of his conjecture,—proving it as strongly, as an argument à priori, could prove such a thing to a philosophic mind, That it was Yoricks and no one's else:—It was proved to be so à posteriori, the day after, when Yorick sent a servant to my uncle Tobys house to enquire after it.