en apanage, oa its rightful possession

561. Juliette, in Borneo and Juliet; Desdémona, in Ot/ie^Zo; and Ophelia, in Hamlet,

567. lago, Othello's jealous and revengeful attendant ; Tartuffe, the hypocrite in Molière's play of the same name ; Basile, a slanderer who figures in Beaumarchais' (1732-1799) comedies Jje Barbier de Seville^ and Le Manage de Figaro; Polonius is evidently considered a buffoon by Hugo, but Coleridge in his Lectures on Shakspere^ p. 237, explains the character as follows: "Polonius . . . is the personified memory of wisdom no longer possessed. . . . But take his advice to Laertes, and Ophelia's reverence for his memory, and we shall see that he is meant to be represented as a statesman somewhat past his faculties."

568. Harpagon, the miser in Molière's V Avare. Bastholo, an old doctor in Le Barbier de Seville^ who has become the type of the jealous guardian. Falstaff, the swindler, braggart, drunkard, and good-tempered liar, celebrated in Shakespeare's Henry IV, and also in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Scapin, a rascally valet, whose ready wit is shown in Molière*s Lea Fourberies de Scapin, Figaro» the valet in Beaumarchais' plays, who is a type of intrigue, adroitness, and versatility.

570. Le beau n'a qu'un tirpe; le laid en a mille. Compare this idea with the following citation from the Avant-Propos of Faguet's Drame Ancien^ Drame Moderne^ p. 21 ; "Le bonheur n'a pas besoin ni d'être raconté, ni d'être décrit, ni d'être peint, ni d'être expliqué. Il ne fournit matière à aucun chroniqueur ni dramatiste. Il est, et il se contente bien de seulement être."

586. Perse, FersiuSj a satirical Latin poet (84-62 a.d.). Pétrone, PetronittSy a satirist of the time of Nero, who died in 66 A.D., known for his satirical poetry and for a novel descriptive of the manners and customs of his time, originally of great length and now known chiefly through a fragment entitled Cena Trimalchionis, which was recently translated into very colloquial English by Professor H. T. Peck of Columbia, under the title *'Trimalchio's Dinner." Juvenal (circ. 60-140 a.d.), rhetorician and satirical poet of the age of Trajan, of whose works, sixteen satires, in five books, are extant. Apulée, Aputeiits (born circ. 125 A.D.), a Roman Platonic philosopher and rhetorician, best known for his romance VAne D^or, The Golden Ass, containing many popular myths and legends.