Queries.
THE BELLMAN, AND HIS HISTORY.
I have often read Vincent Bourne's poem, "Ad Davidem Cook, Westmonasterii Custodem Nocturnum et Vigilantissimum, Anno 1716:" Pickering's edition, p. 129. This nightly guardian, it appears, was accompanied by a dog:
"Cùm variis implent tenebræ terroribus orbem,
Tu comite assuetum cum cane carpis iter,"
was armed with a stout staff, or knotty club:
"Nec te perterrent, nodoso stipite fretum,
Subdola qui tacito pectore furta parant,"
and carried a bell: