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    William Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" describes the seven stages of a man's life from infancy to old age. The stages are: infant, whining schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childishness in old age without senses or memory.

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    Seven Ages of Man

    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    From “As You Like It,” Act II. Sc. 7.

    ALL the world ’s a stage,


    And all the men and women merely players:
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    5
    His Acts being seven ages. At first the Infant,
    Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
    Then the whining School-boy, with his satchel
    And shining morning face, creeping like snail
    Unwillingly to school. And then the Lover,
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    Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad
    Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a Soldier,
    Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard;
    Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
    Seeking the bubble reputation
    15
    Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the Justice,
    In fair round belly with good capon lined,
    With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
    Full of wise saws and modern instances,—
    And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
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    Into the lean and slippered Pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;
    His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
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    And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
    That ends this strange eventful history,
    Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,—
    Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

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