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The old folk, time's doting chronicles.
— William Shakespeare ‧ Henry IV, Part II
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker pictures elderly people as living records of the passing years. Calling them doting suggests they are fond and affectionate, or perhaps feeble with age, and the word carries both shades. Their long lives store up the story of time itself.
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