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The Spider and the Fly (poem)
''The Spider and the Fly'' is a poem by Mary Howitt (1799-1888), published in 1829. The first line of the poem is "'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly." The story tells of a cunning Spider who ensnares a naive Fly through the use of seduction and flattery. The poem is a cautionary tale against those who use flattery and charm to disguise their true evil intentions.
When Lewis Carroll was readying ''Alice's Adventures Under Ground'' for publication he replaced a parody he had made of a negro minstrel song〔Gardner, Martin; ''The Annotated Alice'', 1998 ()〕 with a parody of Howitt's poem. The "Lobster Quadrille", in Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', is a parody of Howitt's poem; it mimics the meter and rhyme scheme, and parodies the first line, but not the subject matter, of the original.〔(Carroll's parody of Howitt's poem ) accessed 3 October 2007〕
An illustrated version by Tony DiTerlizzi was a 2003 Caldecott Honor Book.
==Cultural influence==
The opening line is one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse. Often misquoted as "Step into my parlour" or "Come into my parlour", it has become an aphorism, often used to indicate a false offer of help or friendship that is in fact a trap. The line has been used and parodied numerous times in various works of fiction.
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