Chapter 17

It is a good and soothfast saw;

Half-roasted never will be raw;

No dough is dried once more to meal

No crock new-shapen by the wheel;

You can't turn curds to milk again,

Nor Now, by wishing, back to Then;

And having tasted stolen honey,

You can't buy innocence for money.

JERMYN was not particularly pleased that some chance h