What is the meaning of his youthful hose well saved a world too wide in seven ages of men?

Answer 1

The sixth age is the lean and slipper'd Pantaloon, an elderly man who is well past his best. He is called Pantaloon after the foolish old man in the Commedia dell'Arte. As people age, they sometimes grow fat, and sometimes grow thin, and this man, since he is "lean", is one of those that grows thin. He used to have strong and muscular arms and legs but no longer--his "shank", which is to say his leg, is "shrunk". Hose is like long stockings, sometimes as long as to come up to the thigh. This man has saved his "youthful hose", the stockings he wore when he was a young man, because he is a prudent man. In those days, clothes lasted much longer than they do now because they were made to last and were expensive so people kept mending them to make them last even longer. So he has kept a pair of stockings he had when he was in his twenties which don't fit him anymore now that he is in his sixties or seventies because his legs are smaller. The stockings are way too wide, a world too wide for his shrunk shank, his smaller and withered legs.

Answer 2

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