CONTEXT CLUES

Who is someone you admire?

Full of wise saws and modern INSTANCES; (dress, technology, judgements)

Full of wise SAWS and modern instances; (tools, cities, instruments)

Turning again toward childish TREBLE, pipes (high pitched sound, games, terrors)

That ends this strange eventful history. Is second childishness and mere OBLIVION, (forgetfulness, immortality, wisdom)

Describe yourself in one word

What is the end of everything?

What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

And then the whining school-boy, with his SATCHEL. And shinning morning face, creeping like snail (table, bag for books, wide road)

If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?

In fair round belly with good CAPON lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut (fur, fat chicken, ribbons)

For his shrunk SHANK; and his big manly voice, (head, family, leg)

His acts being seven ages. At the first, the infant, MEWLING and puking in the nurse’s arms (crying, reading, sleeping)

What has words, but never speaks?

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like a furnace, with a WOEFUL ballad (sad, intelligent, awesome)

Into the lean and slipper’d PANTALOON, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, (hot air balloon, bed, pants)