Polonius, who is the personified memory of wisdom no longer actually possessed

This admirable character is always misrepresented on the stage. Shakspere never in tended to as a buffoon: for, although it was natural that Hamlet - a young man of fire and genius, detesting formality, and disliking Polonius on political grounds, as imagining that he had a isted his uncle in his usurpation - should expre himself satirically, yet this must not be taken as exactly the poet's conception of him. In Polonius a certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of busine ; but take his advice to Laertes, and Ophelia's reverence for his memory, and we shall see that he was meant to be represented as a statesman somewhat past his faculties, - his recollections of life all full of wisdom, and showing a knowledge of human nature, whilst what immediately takes place before him, and escapes from him, is indicative of weakne . Cole ridge , Lects. on Shak., etc., p. 237. Jornandes both say distinctly that the Goths put the Ro- Polotsk, or Polock (põʻlotsk). A town in the man army flight" ( Hodgkin ). Pollenzo, or Pollenza. See Pollent i a . Pollio (pol'i-ō), Caius As in i us. Born about 76 B. c.: died at Tusculum, Italy, 6 A. D. A Roman politician, commander, author, and patron of literature: an adherent of Julius Cæ sar.