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 But knotted perimeters o’erlap and contradict.
 Bossy strictures grind upon our chasest industries
-Our every little act hemmed in by rainbow rules of ill-scop’d application.
+Our smallest act hemmed in by rainbow rules of ill-scop’d application.
 Ours not to make reply nor reason why —
-But silent and  comply.
+But be silent and, sans fuss, comply.
 {{script|Queen}}: What causeth this?
 {{script|Regolamento}}: The ropish scars of distant misadventure
-Each shrill response to imprudent trips and grapples
+Give the fib to saintly visage.
-Each time we suffer a wormy bite of rotten apple,
+The watchers’ shrill response to past imprudence:
-Whether harmed or just embarrassed, some busy-body is at hand
+This misbegotten step, that ill-timed grapple
-To record, reflect, to punish, and encode
+Each wormy bite we take of rotten apple — each one marks us deep.
-In cryptic ciphers which thereafter he or she doth not deign to explain or change.
+If harmed or just abash’d, some fuss-pot regulators’ soon at hand
-It set in stone and codified, for good or ill.
+To apportion reprimand. And soon thereafter to encode
+In cryptic ciphers fresh directives which thereafter he
+{{script|Inclusivia}}: Or she.
+{{script|Regolamento}}: Or she — or they — abstain from explication,
+But set in stone and codify, for good or ill.
+We know not what it means. It might be this or that.
 {{script|Queen}}: Canst thou not get a ruling?
 {{script|Nuncle}}: A worthy thought. A pretty feeling.
-And ask him, while you’re there, to nail jelly to the ceiling.
+And ask them, while you’re there, to nail your jelly to the ceiling.
 {{script|Regolamento}}: We take our bitter medicines
 Ev’n while we let this gleaming engine stack silt up