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"At first, the infant, mewling and puking in the nerses arms."
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"Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school.'
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"And then the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woaful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow."
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"Then a soilder, full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the canons mouth."
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"And then the justice, in fair round belly with good capon lined, with eyes severe and beard of the formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances; and so he play's his part."
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"The sixth age shifts into the lean and pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well shaved, a world to wide for his shruck shank, and his big manly voice, turning up again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound."
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"The last scene of all, that ends his strange eventful history, in second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
