Cake…Dough
. I wish my cake were dough again. I wish I had never married. Bellenden Ker says the proverb is a corruption of Ei wʹhissche my keke was dʹhow en geen, which he says is tantamount to “Something whispers within me—repentance, would that my marriage were set aside.”
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	      Entry taken from
	      Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
	      edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.