Keyne, St.

Keyne, St., a holy virgin said to have lived about 490, whose name survives in an old church in Cornwall near Liskeard, and still more so in its famous well. Whichever of a newly-married pair first drinks of its water will bear rule throughout their life together. All the world knows from Southey's ballad the story of the bride who outwitted her husband by taking a bottle to church. The well is mentioned by Fuller and Carew, but the reader will find fuller details in Cyrus Redding's Illustrated Itinerary of Cornwall (1842).