Ouid's elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D.

In Gerontem. 20.

GErons mouldie memory corrects, Old Holinshed our famous Chronicler With morall rules, and pollicy collects, Out of all actions done these fourescore yeares. Accounts the time of euery old euent, Not from Christs birth, nor from the Princes raigne. But from some other famous accident. Which in mens generall notice doth remaine. The siedge of Bulloigne, and the plaugy sweat, The going to Saint Quintines and New-hauen The rising in the North, the frost so great. That cart wheele printes on Thamis face were seene. The fall of money, and burning of Powles sleeple, The blazing starre and Spaniards ouerthrow. By these euents, notorious to the people. He mesures times, and things forepast doth shew. But most of all, he cheefely reckons by, A priuate chance, the death of his cu••st wife: This is to him the dearest memory, And the happyest accident of all his life.