 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1799 - 320 pages
...water a spell. If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth 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 stoopt to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the waters again.... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poetry - 1805 - 224 pages
...water a spell. If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth 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 stoopt to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water... | |
 | English poetry - 1807 - 218 pages
...If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, And 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, And drank of the waters... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823 - 266 pages
...crystal Well, And before the Angel sumtnon'd her, She laid on the water a spell. " If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy...life. " But if the wife should drink of it first, . . God help the husband then !" The Stranger stoopt to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water... | |
 | Thomas Bond - East Looe (England) - 1823 - 360 pages
...spell : — " If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth 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 stoopt to the Well of St. Keyne, And he drank of the water... | |
 | Samuel Drew - Cornwall - 1824 - 766 pages
...ivy. This " If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. " But if the wife should drink of it first, God bless the husband then," The stranger stooped to the well of St. Keyne, And drank of the waters... | |
 | 1827 - 492 pages
...water a spell. If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth 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, And drank of the water... | |
 | Poetry - 1827 - 158 pages
...water a spell. If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth 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, And drank of the water... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...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...life ! " But if the wife should drink of it first, God help the husband then ! " The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...well, And before the Angel summon'd her, She laid on the water a spell: — ' ' If the husband, of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy...life ! " But if the wife should drink of it first, Heaven help the husband then !" — The stranger stoop'd to the well of St. Keyne, And drank of the... | |
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St. Keyne," quoth the Cornishman, "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, A happy man henceforth is he, For he shall... 
