hipped away from Saint _Andrews_, from
_Dundee_, _Aberdeen_, _Dysart_, _Kirkaldy_, _Kinghorn_, _Burntisland_,
_Dunbar_, and other portable towns, which makes me to wonder that a
kingdom so populous as it is, should nevertheless sell so much
bread-corn beyond the seas, and yet to have more than sufficient for
themselves.

So I having viewed the haven and town of _Leith_, took a passage boat to
see the new wondrous Well,[15] to which many a one that is not well,
comes far and near in hope to be made well: indeed I did hear that it
had done much good, and that it hath a rare operation to expel or kill
divers maladies; as to provoke appetite, to help much for the avoiding
of the gravel in the bladder, to cure sore eyes, and old ulcers, with
many other virtues which it hath, but I (through the mercy of God,
having no need of it, did make no great inquisition what it had done,
but for novelty I drank of it, and I found the taste to be more pleasant
than any other water, sweet almost as milk, yet as clear as crystal, and
I did observe that though a man did drink a quart, a pottle, or as much
as his belly could contain, yet it never offended or lay heavy upon the
stomach, no more than if one had drank but a pint or a small quantity.

I went two miles from it to a town called _Burntisland_, where I found
many of my especial good friends, as Master _Robert Hay_, one of the
Grooms of his Majesty's Bed-chamber, Master _David Drummond_, one of his
Gentlemens-Pensioners, Master _James Acmootye_, one of the Grooms of the
Privy Chamber, Captain _Murray_, Sir _Henry Witherington_ Knight,
Captain _Tyrie_, and divers others: and there Master _Hay_, Master
_Drummond_, and the good old Captain _Murray_ did very bountifully
furnish me with gold for my expenses, but I being at dinner with those
aforesaid gentlemen, as we were discoursing, there befel a strange
accident, which I think worth the relating.

I know not upon what occasion they began to talk of being at sea in
former times, and I (amongst the rest) said, I was at the taking of
_Cadiz_; whereto an English gentleman replied, that he was the next good
voyage after at the Islands: I answered him that I was there also. He
demanded in what ship I was? I told him in the Rainbow of the Queens:
why (quoth he) do you not know me? I was in the same ship, and my name
is _Witherington_.

Sir, said I, I do remember the name well, but by reason that it is near
two and twenty years since I saw