GLOUCESTER These late94 eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature95 can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent96 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 prediction: there’s son against father. The king falls from bias of nature101: there’s father against child. We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders
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