lace.

Amongst our viands that we had there, I must not forget the Sole and
Goose (_sic_), a most delicate fowl, which breeds in great abundance in
a little rock called the _Bass_, which stands two miles into the sea. It
is very good flesh, but it is eaten in the form as we eat oysters,
standing at a side-board, a little before dinner, unsanctified without
grace; and after it is eaten, it must be well liquored with two or three
good rouses[30] of sherry or canary sack. The Lord or owner of the
_Bass_ doth profit at the least two hundred pound yearly by those geese;
the _Bass_ itself being of a great height, and near three quarters of a
mile in compass, all fully replenished with wild fowl, having but one
small entrance into it, with a house, a garden, and a chapel in it; and
on the top of it a well of pure fresh water.

From _Adam_, Master _John_ and Master _James Acmootye_ went to the town
of _Dunbar_ with me, where ten Scottish pints of wine were consumed,
and brought to nothing for a farewell: there at Master _James Baylies_
house I took leave, and Master _James Acmootye_ coming for _England_,
said, that if I would ride with, that neither I nor my horse should want
betwixt that place and _London_. Now I having no money nor means for
travel, began at once to examine my manners and my want: at last my want
persuaded my manners to accept of this worthy gentleman's undeserved
courtesy. So that night he brought me to a place called _Cockburnspath_,
where we lodged at an inn, the like of which I dare say, is not in any
of his Majesty's Dominions. And for to show my thankfulness to Master
_William Arnot_ and his wife, the owners thereof, I must explain their
bountiful entertainment of guests, which is this:

Suppose ten, fifteen, or twenty men and horses come to lodge at their
house, the men shall have flesh, tame and wild fowl, fish with all
variety of good cheer, good lodging, and welcome; and the horses shall
want neither hay or provender: and at the morning at their departure the
reckoning is just nothing. This is this worthy gentlemen's use, his
chief delight being only to give strangers entertainment _gratis_: and I
am sure, that in _Scotland_ beyond _Edinburgh_, I have been at houses
like castles for building; the master of the house his beaver being his
blue bonnet, one that will wear no other shirts, but of the flax that
grows on his own ground, and of his wife's, daughters', or servants'
spinning; that hath his