So longe here lecoun thei recorden,
Til ate laste thei acorden
Be nihtes time forto wende
Al one out fro the tounes ende, 1380
Wher was a welle under a Tree;
And who cam ferst, or sche or he,
P. i. 326
He scholde stille there abide.
So it befell the nyhtes tide[970]
This maiden, which desguised was,