CHAPTER 4.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.