GLOUCESTER 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. This villain of mine comes under the 110 prediction: there’s son against father; the King falls from bias of nature: there’s father against child. We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollow- ness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders
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