The box is your chest, with eyelids and kneecaps, and hands, feet and nails for measures. The fish are soles, the shellfish mussels, the trees palms, the flowers irises and two lips, the plant hips. Then a hart, two calves, hairs, temples, arms, veins, insteps, ayes and noes, pupils and ten dons: tendons.
I have a large box with two lids, two caps and three measures everyone knows. In it are some good fish and a smaller tribe of shellfish, two lofty trees, some fine flowers and a native plant. There is a handsome stag, two playful animals and a smaller, wilder herd. I have two halls of worship, weapons of war, a great many weathercocks, the steps of an inn, the House of Commons in session, two students and some Spanish grandees. What am I?
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The human body
Source: Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester, 19th century