How Shrovetide is anatomized and described by Xenomanes.
As for the inward parts of Shrovetide, said Xenomanes; his brain is (at least, it was in my time) in bigness, colours, substance, and strength, much like the left cod of a he hand-worm.
The ventricles of his said brain, The stomach, like a belt. like an auger. The pylorus, like a pitchfork.
The worm-like excrescence, like The windpipe, like an oyster-a Christmas-box. knife.
The membranes, like a monk's The throat, like a pincushion cowl. stuffed with oakum.
The funnel, like a mason's chisel. The lungs, like a prebend's fur-The fornix, like a casket. gown.
The glandula pinealis, like a bag- The heart, like a cope. pipe. The mediastine, like an earthen The rete mirabile, like a gutter. cup.
The dug-like processus, like a The pleura, like a crow's bill. patch. The arteries, like a watch-coat.
The tympanums, like a whirli- The midriff, like a montero-cap. gig. The liver, like a double-tongued The rocky bones, like a goose- mattock. wing. The veins, like a sash-window.
The nape of the neck, like a paper The spleen, like a catcall. lantern. The guts, like a trammel.
The nerves, like a pipkin. The gall, like a cooper's adze.
The uvula, like a sackbut. The entrails, like a gauntlet.
The palate, like a mitten. The mesentery, like an abbot's The spittle, like a shuttle. mitre.
The almonds, like a telescope. The hungry gut, like a button.
The bridge of his nose, like a The blind gut, like a breastplate. wheelbarrow. The colon, like a bridle.
The head of the larynx, like a The arse-gut, like a monk's vintage-basket. leathern bottle.
The kidneys, like a trowel. The ligaments, like a tinker's The loins, like a padlock. budget.
The ureters, like a pothook. The bones, like three-cornered The emulgent veins, like two cheesecakes. gilliflowers. The marrow, like a wallet.
The spermatic vessels, like a cully- The cartilages, like a field-mully-puff. tortoise, alias a mole.
The parastata, like an inkpot. The glandules in the mouth, like The bladder, like a stone-bow. a pruning-knife.
The neck, like a mill-clapper. The animal spirits, like swingeing The mirach, or lower parts of the fisticuffs. belly, like a high-crowned hat. The blood-fermenting, like a The siphach, or its inner rind, multiplication of flirts on the like a wooden cuff. nose.
The muscles, like a pair of bellows. The urine, like a figpecker.
The tendons, like a hawking- The sperm, like a hundred ten-glove. penny nails.
And his nurse told me, that being married to Mid-lent, he only begot a good number of local adverbs and certain double fasts.
His memory he had like a scarf. His undertakings, like the ballast His common sense, like a buzzing of a galleon. of bees. His understanding, like a torn His imagination, like the chime breviary. of a set of bells. His notions, like snails crawling His thoughts, like a flight of star- out of strawberries. lings. His will, like three filberts in a His conscience, like the unnest- porringer. ling of a parcel of young His desire, like six trusses of hay. herons. His judgment, like a shoeing-His deliberations, like a set of horn. organs. His discretion, like the truckle of His repentance, like the carriage a pulley. of a double cannon. His reason, like a cricket.
