Our chimneys were blown down: and, as they say,

Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death;

And prophecying, with accents terrible,

Of dire combustion, and confus'd events,

New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird

Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth

Was feverous, and did shake.

Macb. 'Twas a rough night."

"Old M. Threescore and ten I can remember well:

Within the volume of which time, I have seen