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Birth
At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Soft, Clumsy, and new baby smell. -
Schoolboy
Then the whining schoolboy, with his scatchel and shining morning face, crepping like snail, Unwillingly to school. Kindergarten, 5 years old, first learner. -
Teenage years
And then the lover, sighing with fumance, with a woeful ballad made with his mistress' eyebrow. -
18 years old
Then a soldier, full of stange oaths and bearded like the pard, jealous in honor, sudden and quick and quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation. Even in the cannons mouth.
18 years old, young, and adulthood. -
40 years old
And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined. With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of wise and modern instances, And so e plays his part.
Big belly, getting older, and white hair. -
70 years old
The sixth age shifts, 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 and whistle in his sound.
Shaking, wrinkles, and mouse voice. -
Death
Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Few minutes/seconds of life, funeral, and heaven.
