These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend No good to us: though the wisdom of nature can Reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself Scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, Friendship falls off, brothers divide: in Cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in Palaces, treason; and the bond cracked ’twixt son And father . . . —William Shakespeare, King Lear
