What is the good of your sagacity

Except to counsel in a strait like this?

I guarantee the parties man and wife

Whether you like or loathe it, bless or ban.

May spilt milk be put back within the bowl—

The done thing, undone? You, it is, we look

For counsel to, you fitliest will advise!

Since milk, though spilt and spoilt, does marble good,

Better we down on knees and scrub the floor,

Than sigh, 'the waste would make a syllabub!'