Steve: It's not likely JJ will answer you. The original request was posted in 1997.

I was looking up information about THE LADY ALL SKIN AND BONE, which contains a line "The worms crawl'd out, the worms crawl'd in." A footnote in Gammer Gurton's Garland mentioned that the same line occurs in ALONZO AND FAIR IMOGENE, which I had never heard of, so I looked that up, and I also looked to see whether it had ever been posted at Mudcat. It hadn't, but I found this unanswered request. That's how I happened to refresh the thread.

Sorry to have misled you, but it's good to have the information here anyway, even if the original requestor is no longer looking for it.

I wonder if there is some connection to the familiar children's rhyme:

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out.
The worms play pinochle on your snout….