“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,