"All you that doe the bell-man heere, The first day of this hopefull yeare; I doe in love admonish you, To bid your old sins all adue, And walk as God's just law requires, In holy deeds and good desires, Which if to doe youle doe your best, God will in Christ forgive the rest." "COMMON SOUNDS. "The belman like the wakefull morning cocke, Doth warne you to be vigilant and wise: Looke to youre fire, your candle, and your locke, Prevent what may through negligence arise: So may you sleepe with peace and wake with joy, And no mischances shall your state annoy." "All you which in your beds doe lie, Unto the Lord ye ought to cry, That he would pardon all your sins; And thus the bell-man's prayer begins: Lord, give us grace our sinful life to mend, And at the last to send a joyfull end: Having put out your fire and your light, For to conclude, I bid you all good night." The collection of Bellman's songs here described is sometimes found appended to a little work entitled _Time well Improved, or Some Helps for Weak Heads in their Meditations_, 12mo. 1657. The latter publication is a reprint, with a new title-page, of Samuel Rowlands' _Heaven's Glory, seeke it; Earth's Vanitie, fly it; Hell's Horror, fere it_. But whether the songs in question were written, or merely collected by Rowlands, does not appear. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. _The Bellman_ (Vol. iii., p. 324.1).--Your correspondent F. W. T. will find a very amusing sketch of a night-watchman in _Gemälde aus dem häuslichen Leben und Erzählungen_ of G. W. C. Starke: whether it may help his inquiries or not I cannot say. It will at least inform him of the difficulties in which a conscientious and gallant watchman found himself when he attempted to improve on the time-honoured terms in which he had to "cry the hours." BENBOW. Birmingham. THE TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, AND THE AUTHOR OF THE SABBATH. (Vol. iii., p. 305.1)