Careful Words

chronicler (n.)

After my death I wish no other herald,

No other speaker of my living actions,

To keep mine honour from corruption,

But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

  They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.