Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
All the world 's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.[69:1]
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.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail