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AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS

AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS
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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..." The speech goes on to cover man's years as a schoolboy, lover, soldier, judge, foolish old man, and finally "second childishness and mere oblivion," in which man is "sans [without] teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."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 ..." The speech goes on to cover man's years as a schoolboy, lover, soldier, judge, foolish old man, and finally "second childishness and mere oblivion," in which man is "sans [without] teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."