GLOUCESTER These late eclipses in the sun and moon 109 portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of 110 nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds 111 itself scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools, 112 friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, muti- 113 nies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and 114 the bond cracked ’twixt son and father. [This villain 115 of mine comes under the prediction: there’s son 116 against father. The King falls from bias of nature: 117 there’s father against child. We have seen the best of 118 our time. Machinations, hollowness,
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