The Seven Agesof Man

  • old age

    old age
    he is a shell of his former self.He looses his firmness.He looses his assertiveness.
  • infant

    infant
    Mewling and punking in the nurse arms.He is a helpless baby.
  • schoolboy

    schoolboy
    Stachel and shining morning face creeping link snails, unwillingly to school.He begins school.
  • incapacity

    dependent on others for care.
  • lover

    lover
    shinning like furnace with a woeful ballad mad to his mistress' elbow.He is always maudline.
  • soldier

    soldier
    full of strange oath and bearding like pards,jealous in honor,sudden and quick like quarrel.Hhe is always working toward making a reputation for himself.
  • justice

    justice
    in far round belly with good caponlined.with eyes severe and beard of formalcut.