VN knew "Here we go round the mulberry bush," which he echoes weirdly  and
wonderfully in Lolita II.26: " 'going round and round,' as she [Rita] phrased
it, 'like a God-damn mulberry moth'"  although he glosses it in Appel's note as
"the maypole song" and not a morning bathtime song-which is new to me too, and
is not in the Opies' Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, but may have been
current a long time nevertheless.



Brian Boyd