Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.
Paraphrase: In the sixth stage of his life a man turns into a lean and thin, slipper-wearing pantaloon with loose trousers. He wears glasses on nose and keeps a leather pouch on his side. He bought stockings in youth and have saved them well. Those stockings are too loose for his shrunk and thin legs. His coarse and loud manly voice produces whistles and piping sound like a child as he speaks.
(a) What is a ‘lean and slippered pantaloon'?
(b) What does the phrase “a world too wide" here mean?
(c) How does the ‘mainly voice’ turn into ‘childish’ in the sixth stage of life?
(a) It means a thin old man wearing slippers and loose trousers.
(b) The stockings he bought in his youth have become too loose for his shrunk and thin legs.
(c) His manly voice turns into childish trebles and whistles when he speaks as he has no teeth in his mouth.