slowworm

noun1

1. •
   A small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis, often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.

   • Well, sir, it may be we shall have some better orations of it anon: well, Ile watch you as narrowly as ever you were watcht, and Ile play with you as the nightingale with the slowworme;[…] — 1588