The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Why weavers, gardeners, and gladiators -- or a man with a pined leg (proceeding from some ailment in the foot) -- should ever have had some tender nymph breaking her heart in secret for them, are points well and duly settled and accounted for by ancient and modern physiologists.

A water-drinker, provided he is a profess'd one, and does it without fraud or covin, is precisely in the same predicament: not that, at first sight, there is any consequence, or show of logic in it, "That a rill of cold water dribbling through my inward parts, should light up a torch in my Jenny's -- "