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Updated: May 15, 2025
Nor can we assent to the assertion, that in his ballads, metrical tales, and rhyming jeux-d'esprit, Southey's essay to be comic results in merely 'quaint and flippant dulness. Smartly enough he tells the story of the Well of St Keyne, whereof the legend is, that if the husband manage to secure a draught before his good dame, '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 traveller to whom a Cornishman narrates the tradition, compliments him with the assumption that he has profited by it in his matrimonial experience:
Keyne," "The Inchcape Rock," and "Lodore," will repay the curious reader. The beauty of Southey's character, his patience and helpfulness, make him a worthy associate of the two greater poets with whom he is generally named.
Keyne, whom he also treated poetically, is supposed to have visited the Mount when she came to Cornwall to which we must add a surmise that this saint may not have been a woman at all, but was really St. Kenwyn.
Keyne, but he thought it unlikely. So there is a limit to belief. Since Mr. Adair depopulated Derryveigh, and gave it over to silence, the roads have been neglected, and have become rather difficult for a car.
Keyne? suggested the malicious brother. 'No, at the source of the Scamander, said Percy. It served us in good stead when we got into the desert of Engaddi. 'Oh! was that when the robbers broke into John's tent? exclaimed Violet. 'Surely you had some better weapon?
There are two chapels, Holy Cross on the S. and St Peter's on the N. The latter is filled with tombs and brasses of the Wyndham family, chiefly 16th and 17th cent. In the churchyard is a restored cross. The farm-house of Kentisford, near the church, was once a manor-house, and preserves the name of St Keyne. Wayford is a village 3 m. S.W. of Crewkerne Station.
It is a long straggling sort of place of not very lively appearance, resembling an overgrown village. Its history is rather romantic than reliable. Its patron saint, S. Keyne, a Welsh lady of exceptional sanctity, dwelt in a neighbouring wood much infested with serpents.
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