Yorick Timeline and Summary
MoreYorick Timeline and Summary
- Yorick owns a nice horse, and people constantly want to borrow it in order to ride to the nearest midwife.
- To prevent his nice horses from getting ruined, Yorick starts buying bad horses.
- We learn that the priest's penchant for playing jokes on people wins him enemies who destroy his reputation, causing his death.
- As he's baptizing the new Shandy baby, he assumes that Mr. Shandy wants to name his son "Tristram."
- With Mr. Shandy, Yorick visits some scholars to determine whether or not Tristram's name can be changed. There, he's accused of dropping a hot chestnut in Phutatorius's lap.
- Trim reads aloud Yorick's sermon about Le Fever's death.
- Yorick speaks the book's closing line.