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Below is a prose version of the poem “Seven Ages of Man.” Fill-in the blanks with your own words similar to the expressions and meaning found in the poem. Refer to the lines indicated in the poem.
The whole world is a stage, and all the men and women merely actors. They have their exits and their entrances, and in his lifetime (1. Line 4)____________________________, his life separated into seven acts. In (2. Line 5)_______________________, whimpering and puking in his nurse’s arms. Then he’s the whining schoolboy, with (3. Line 8) ________________________, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school. Then he becomes a lover, huffing and puffing like a furnace as he writes (4. Line 11) _______________________ eyebrows. In the fourth act, he’s a soldier, full of foreign curses, with a beard like a panther, eager to defend (5. Line 13) ____________________________________. On the battlefield, he puts himself in front of the cannon’s mouth, risking his life to seek (6 Line 14)_______________________________ In the fifth act, he is a judge, with a nice fat belly from all the bribes he’s taken. His eyes are stern, and he’s given his beard a respectable cut. He’s full of (7. Line
18) ______________________________________________: that’s the way he plays his part. In the sixth act, the curtain rises on a skinny old man in slippers, (8 Line 21)____________________________________ at his side. The stockings he wore in his youth hang loosely on his shriveled legs now, and his bellowing voice has shrunk (9. Line 23)
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