The Fourth Book/Chapter XXX

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 The fornix, like a casket. fur-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        The cartilages, like a field- cully-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 glove. ten-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.