Quotation by Shakespeare

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud,
And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold;
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Gloucester, in Henry VI, Part 2, act 2, sc. 4, l. 1-4.

He has lost his office of Protector of the King, and his wife has been banished.
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