“The worms, They crept in, and the worms, They crept out,
And sported his eyes and his temples about,
While the Spectre addressed Imogine.”

—  Matthew Lewis (writer) , book The Monk

Page 315; "Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine", line 59.
The Monk (1796)

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