'We have seen the best of our time'

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. ...
... We have seen the best of our time.
Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our
graves.

—William Shakespeare, King Lear (I.ii) (1606)