"The worms they crept in"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 16, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Baker, John wrote:

>         Several versions of the children's poem that includes the
> lines, "The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, The ants play
> pinochle on your snout" (or variants thereof), have been collected in
> Sherman & Weisskopf, Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore
> of Childhood.  However, the original reference presumably is to the
> poem Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine, which originally appeared in
> the novel The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1796)...

*nice* catches!