Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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SCENE IX.
Duke Sen.
Thou seest, we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal Theatre
Presents more woful pageants, than the scene
Wherein we play in.
&plquo;Jaq.
&plquo;All the world's a Stage,
&plquo;And all the men and women meerly Players;
&plquo;They have their Exits and their entrances,
&plquo;And one man in his time plays many parts:
&plquo;His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
&plquo;Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms:
&plquo;And then, the whining school-boy with his satchel,
&plquo;And shining morning-face, creeping like snail
&plquo;Unwillingly to school. And then, the lover;
&plquo;Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad
&plquo;Made to his mistress' eye-brow. Then, a soldier;
&plquo;Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
&plquo;Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel;
&plquo;Seeking the bubble reputation
&plquo;Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice
&plquo;In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd,
&plquo;With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
&plquo;6 noteFull of wise saws and modern instances,
&plquo;And so he plays his part. 7 note
The sixth age shifts
&plquo;Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
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&plquo;With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;
&plquo;His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide
&plquo;For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
&plquo;Turning again toward childish treble, pipes,
&plquo;And whistles in his sound. Last Scene of all,
&plquo;That ends this strange eventful History,
&plquo;Is second childishness, and meer oblivion,
&plquo;Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.&prquo;
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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