Chapter 4.XXXI.

Shrovetide’s outward parts anatomized.

Shrovetide, continued Xenomanes, is somewhat better proportioned in his outward parts, excepting the seven ribs which he had over and above the common shape of men.

His toes were like a virginal on The peritoneum, or caul wherein
  an organ. his bowels were wrapped, like
His nails, like a gimlet. a billiard-table. 
His feet, like a guitar.  His back, like an overgrown rack-
His heels, like a club. bent crossbow. 
The soles of his feet, like a cru- The vertebrae, or joints of his
  cible. backbone, like a bagpipe. 
His legs, like a hawk’s lure.  His ribs, like a spinning-wheel. 
His knees, like a joint-stool.  His brisket, like a canopy. 
His thighs, like a steel cap.  His shoulder-blades, like a mortar. 
His hips, like a wimble.  His breast, like a game at nine-
His belly as big as a tun, buttoned pins.
  after the old fashion, with a His paps, like a hornpipe.
  girdle riding over the middle His armpits, like a chequer.
  of his bosom.  His shoulders, like a hand-barrow. 
His navel, like a cymbal.  His arms, like a riding-hood. 
His groin, like a minced pie.  His fingers, like a brotherhood’s
His member, like a slipper. andirons. 
His purse, like an oil cruet.  The fibulae, or lesser bones of his
His genitals, like a joiner’s planer. legs, like a pair of stilts. 
Their erecting muscles, like a His shin-bones, like sickles.
  racket.  His elbows, like a mouse-trap. 
The perineum, like a flageolet.  His hands, like a curry-comb. 
His arse-hole, like a crystal look- His neck, like a talboy.
  ing-glass.  His throat, like a felt to distil hip-
His bum, like a harrow. pocras. 
The knob in his throat, like a His loins, like a butter-pot.
  barrel, where hanged two His jaws, like a caudle cup.
  brazen wens, very fine and His teeth, like a hunter’s staff.
  harmonious, in the shape of an Of such colt’s teeth as his,
  hourglass. you will find one at Colonges
His beard, like a lantern. les Royaux in Poitou, and
His chin, like a mushroom. two at La Brosse in Xaintonge,
His ears, like a pair of gloves. on the cellar door. 
His nose, like a buskin.  His tongue, like a jew’s-harp. 
His nostrils, like a forehead cloth.  His mouth, like a horse-cloth. 
His eyebrows, like a dripping-pan.  His face embroidered like a mule’s
On his left brow was a mark of pack-saddle.
  the shape and bigness of an His