“All these threatening storms, which, like impregnate Clouds, hover o'er our heads, will (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.”

—  George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

Physician, Act II, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)

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