ong before. But
howsoever, she made such a hideous noise, that I started out of my
sleep, and thought that the Devil had been there: but I no sooner knew
who it was, but I arose, and thrust my dumb beast out of my chamber; and
for want of a lock or a latch, I staked up my door with a great chair.

Thus having escaped one of the seven deadly sins as at _Brechin_, I
departed from thence to a town called _Forfor_; and from thence to
_Dundee_, and so to _Kinghorn_, _Burntisland_, and so to _Edinburgh_,
where I stayed eight days, to recover myself of falls and bruises, which
I received in my travel in the Highland mountainous hunting. Great
welcome I had showed me all my stay at _Edinburgh_, by many worthy
gentlemen, namely, old Master _George Todrigg_, Master _Henry
Livingston_, Master _James Henderson_, Master _John Maxwell_, and a
number of others, who suffered me to want no wine or good cheer, as may
be imagined.

Now the day before I came from _Edinburgh_, I went to _Leith_, where I
found my long approved and assured good friend Master _Benjamin Jonson_,
at one Master _John Stuarts_ house; I thank him for his great kindness
towards me: for at my taking leave of him, he gave me a piece of gold of
two and twenty shillings[29] to drink his health in _England_. And
withal, willed me to remember his kind commendations to all his friends:
So with a friendly farewell, I left him as well, as I hope never to see
him in a worse estate: for he is amongst noblemen and gentlemen that
know his true worth, and their own honours, where, with much respective
love he is worthily entertained.

So leaving _Leith_ I returned to _Edinburgh_, and within the port or
gate, called the _Nether-Bow_, I discharged my pockets of all the money
I had: and as I came pennyless within the walls of that city at my first
coming thither; so now at my departing from thence, I came moneyless out
of it again; having in company to convey me out, certain gentlemen,
amongst the which Master _James Acherson_, Laird of _Gasford_, a
gentleman that brought me to his house, where with great entertainment
he and his good wife did welcome me.

On the morrow he sent one of his men to bring me to a place called
_Adam_, to Master _John Acmootye_ his house, one of the Grooms of his
Majesty's Bed-chamber; where with him and his two brethren, Master
_Alexander_, and Master _James Acmootye_, I found both cheer and
welcome, not inferior to any that I had had in any former p