And foureteene yeares continuance of raigne, Why it is Enter Nero, Nimphidius, Tigellinus to them.

I can resolve it by rote, Lady, twas that yeare the Cuckoo sung in May: another token Lady; there raigned in Rome a great Tyrant that yeare, and many Maides lost their heads for using flesh on Fish-daies.

But what shall we wonder at emperours prodigalities, when of later yeares a simple Franciscan frier, Peter de Ruere, after hee had attained to the dignitie of cardinall by the favour of the pope, his kinsman, hee spent in two yeares, in which he lived at Rome, in feasts and banquets, two hundred thousand crownes, besides his debts, which were as much more.

The weary yeare his race now having run, The new begins his compast course anew: With shew of morning mylde he bath begun, Betokening peace and plenty to ensew.