“I have left a good woman who never was here,”
The stranger he made reply;
“But that my draught should be better for that,
I pray you answer me why.”
“St. Keyne,” quoth the countryman, “many a time
Drank of this crystal well,
And before the angel summoned her
She laid on the water a spell.
“If the husband of this gifted well
Shall drink before his wife,