THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN.

[From As You Like It.]

Jacques. All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;

Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel,

And shining morning face, creeping like snail