In Competition No. 3209, you were invited to provide Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of a Tory MP.
Inspiration for this challenge came from a parody of Jaques’s monologue from As You Like It by the writer and politician — and Shakespearean scholar — Horace Twiss (1787–1849). The closing lines of his ‘The Patriot’s Progress’
…Scene the last,
That ends this comfortable history,
Is a fat pension and a pompous peerage,
With cash, with coronet — with all but conscience.
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