...good to us: though the wisdom of Nature can reason it thus and thus, yet Nature finds itself scourg'd by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls...countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond crack'd 'twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's son against...

...sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide. (Act I, Sc. ii, lines 91-94) Edmund offers the opinion that Goneril and Regan are 'Most savage and...

...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...discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked between son and father. This villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's son against father:...

...tailors' tutors, No heretics burned but wenches' suitors. Gloucester's anticipation of a time when "love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide:...treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father" is proved dismally accurate, even though it is based on superstition about the effect of eclipses....

...good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourg'd by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls...countries, discord; in palaces treason; and the bond crack'd 'twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's son against...

...and warre is spread on euery side, neither is anie man exempt from the edge of the sword. (Bb2-Bb2v) 'Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide:...countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond crack'd 'twixt son and father', Gloucester tells us. 'There's son against father: the King falls from...

...is total. Scene Two immediately undermines this. Gloucester speaks of how disorderly the state is: 'in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces,...treason, and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father'. Are we to infer that this has happened as a result of Lear's action, has the state been in turmoil...

...Though the wisdom of Nature can reason thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent01 effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies, in countries, discords, in palaces, treason, the bond cracked between son and father. Find out this villain, Edmund,...

...heat" (1.1.304-05). At such a time, Lear's remaining counselor, the duke of Gloucester, maintains: Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide;...cracked 'twixt son and father. This villain of mine [Edgar] comes under the prediction; there's son against father. The king falls from bias of nature;...

...circumstances not unjustified terror of political chaos and of revolution supplanting the "natural" order: "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide:...treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father. . . . Machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorders" (1.2.106-14). It is an accurate...