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In the tragedy King Lear, astrology is used to even greater effect. In I,ii Gloucester first raises the issue of astrology:
 



Glou.

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 scourg'd by the

sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide. In cities, mutinies; in 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 father: the King falls from bias of nature; there's father

against child. We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous

disorders follow us disquietly to our graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall lose thee nothing; do it

carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banish'd! his offence, honesty! 'Tis strange. (I.i)