A happy man thenceforth is he,
For he shall be master for life.
“But if the wife should drink of it first,
Heaven help the husband then!”
The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne,
And drank of the waters again.
“You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes?”
He to the countryman said.
But the countryman smiled as the stranger spake,
And sheepishly shook his head.