Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then the whining schoolboy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. Oh, noble fool! A worthy fool! Jester's clothing is the only thing to wear.Īll the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. That fools should be so contemplative made me laugh without a break for a full hour, as recorded by the fool's sundial. And so from hour to hour we ripen and ripen, and from hour to hour we rot and rot, and there's a story in all this.' When I heard that fool moralizing about time in this way, I began to laugh and exclaim like a rooster. It was nine only an hour ago, and in one more hour it will be eleven. So we may see,' he said, 'how the world moves.

'No, sir,' he said, 'Don't call me 'fool' until heaven has sent me my fortune.' And then he pulled a sundial from his pocket and, looking at it gravely, said very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock. What a miserable world! As sure as I live off of food, I met a fool who was lying down and basking in the sun, complaining against Lady Fortune using good, well-practiced language, and yet he was a professional fool. A fool, a fool, I met a fool in the forest, a jester dressed in mixed colors.

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