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.