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Infant
At first, the infant, mewlling and puking in the nurses arms. Adj.-Crying, happy, grabing -
School boy
Then the whinning schoolboy, with his sachel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail, unwilling to school. Adj.-happy, excited, nervous -
Lover
And then the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eybrow. Adj.- watchful, careless, funloving -
Soldier
Then a soldier, full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, jealous in honor, sudden and quick to quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannons mouth. Adj.- brave, honorable, scared, clueless -
Middle aged
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. Adj.-fat, happy, wise, inteligent. -
Old age
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 wistles in his sound. Adj.-Wise, Weak, Tired, Adj.- -
Deathbed
Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Adj.-Happy, Tired, dead
