The final categories may suggest that Jaques was not so much cynic as sad realist!
THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN (concluded)
. . . And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
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THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN (concluded
JAQUES'S disquisition on the seven ages of man, from Shakespeare's As You Like It, yesterday featured the infant mewling in its nurse's arms, the school-boy creeping like snail unwillingly to school, the sighing lover, and the fiery-tempered soldier.
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