Competition: Marriage guidance

In Competition No. 2711 you were invited to cook up a recipe for marital bliss on behalf of a poet of your choice.
It was agony to whittle an especially fine entry down to the half-dozen printed below. Inevitably, some good ’uns missed out. Space permits only a hearty congratulatory slap on the back all-round. The winners earn £25 apiece and the bonus fiver belongs to Basil-Ransome-Davies.

There’s a cloud o’ trouble loomin’ when a
    squaddie takes a wife
And the man ’oo’s lived in barracks ’as to face
    domestic life
With a creature ’alf ’is dearest pal and ’alf a sort of
    sphinx
And prettier than a Christmas rose and wiser than
    ’e thinks. 

’E may ’ear a curtain-lecture if he doesn’t mind ’is
    ways
And ’e’ll quickly find that insubordination never
    pays,
For a woman is an angel when an ’usband treats
    ’er right
But the one ’oo slights a spouse will find ’e’s
    picked ’is biggest fight.