Guerijr and S. Neot made their
abode (quaere, whether he meane not their burials) or rather
so resolue, because Asser so deliuers it, and there found his orisons
seconded with a happy effect.
Next, I will relate you another of the Cornish natural wonders,
viz. S. Kaynes well: but lest you make a wonder first at the Saint,
before you take notice of the well, you must vnderstand, that this
was not Kayne the man-queller, but one of a gentler spirit, and
milder sex, to wit, a woman. He who caused the spring to be pictured,
added this rime for an exposition:
In name, in shape, in quality,
This well is very quaint;
The name, to lot of Kayne befell,
No ouer-holy Saint.
The shape, 4. trees of diuers kinde,
Withy, Oke, Elme and Ash,
Make with their roots an arched roofe,
Whose floore this spring doth wash.
The quality, that man or wife,
Whose chance, or choice attaines,
First of this sacred streame to drinke,
Thereby the mastry gaines.
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