Bellman
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A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anythingin the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called thehours. Milton.
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The swedish poet Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795) is [Sweden]'s answer to William [Shakespere].
He practicly lived in the many pub's bars and tavernas in Stockholm when not trying to please the king [Gustav III] and naturally many of his songs tell about the people he drank with.He did also form a parody order: the Order of [Bacchus].
To enter this order the demand was to have lay wasted in the gutter twice. -
A town crier.
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