And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians12:7.

He's an Anglo-Saxon Messengeröand those are Anglo- Saxon attitudes.

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.7,'The Lion and the Unicorn'.

Oh, no, the machine, the machine is necessary. A man comesintoagreat hotelandsays,Iama messenger. Who is this man? He disappears walking, there is no noise, nothing. Maybe he will never come back, maybe he will never deliver the message.But a man who rides up on a great machine, this man is responsible, this man exists. He will be given messages.

-Miller, Arthur
  Rodolpho.  A View From the Bridge, act1.

The merry cuckoo, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti, sonnet19.