"Therefore, I have no one notion, / That is not form'd, like the designing / Of the peristaltick motion; / Vermicular; twisting and twining; / Going to work / Just like a bottle-skrew upon a cork."
My Cousin's Tale of a Cock and a Bull [from John Hall Stevenson's <u>Crazy Tales</u>]
John Hall Stevenson, <u>Crazy Tales</u> (London, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=K04shfHupqQC">1780 edition in Google Books</a>&gt;