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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Jerkin

A man’s body and his mind (with the utmost reverence to both I speak it) are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin’s lining: rumple the one, you rumple the other.
Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Chap. XLVIII.