...Collection (British Museum). Some forty years later Samuel Pepys writes in his Diary : — " I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell, just under my window, as I was writing this very line, and cried, 1 Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.' " OLD TOWN...

...with more of circumstance: " I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell under my window, an, I was writing of this -very line, and cried, ' Past...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.' " Such passages are not to be misunderstood. The appeal to Samuel Pepys years hence is unmistakable....

...with more of circumstance: " I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell under my window, tu I was writing of this very line, and cried, ' Past...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.'" Such passages are not to be misunderstood. The appeal to Samuel Pepys years hence is unmistakable....

...with more of circumstance: " I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell under my window, MI was writing of this very line, and cried, ' Past one...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.' " Such passages are not to be misunderstood. The appeal to Samuel Pepys years hence is unmistakable....

...more of circumstance: " I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell under my window, as I -wax writing of this -very line, and cried, ' Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.'" Such passages are not to be misunderstood. The appeal to Samuel Pepys years hence is unmistakable....

...circumstance : " I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell under my window, as / was writ1ng of this very line, and cried, ' Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.' " Such passages are not to be misunderstood. The appeal to Samuel Pepys years hence is unmistakable....

...very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing and unthinking time. Dryden, SECULAR MASQUE. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell, just under...was writing of this very line, and cried, " Past one o' the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." Pepys, DIARY, Jan. 16, 1660. * suppers. This night...

...Another duty of the bellman was to report on the weather; cf. Pepys, Jan. 16, 1659 — 1660: "I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell just under...one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning ' " — (one of the many vivid strokes which make the Diary so graphic). The Bellman of London was...

...dined with us only Mr. Lewis, 1 The bellman's accents. Cf. Pepys' Diary, Jan. 16, 1659-60 : " I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell just under...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.'" and Dr. Freind l (that writ " Lord Peterborow's Actions in Spain "). I stayed with them till just now...

...with us only Mr. Lewis, 1 The bellman's accents. Cf. Pepys' Diary, Jan. 16, 1659-6o : " I staid up t£ the bellman came by with his bell just under my window as I was writing tfthfe very tine, and cried, ' Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy naming.' " and Dr....