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,
A happy man henceforth is he,
For he shall be master for life.
“But if the wife should drink of it first—
God help the husband then!”
The stranger stoop’d to the well of St. Keyne,