pigeon-liver'd

Updated: May 7, 2025

But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter; or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal. The feelings of Hamlet, until then forcibly kept down, now get the mastery over him. He gives vent to them in oaths of which he is himself at last ashamed, when he compares himself to 'a very drab, a scullion, who 'must fall a-cursing.

Jacob Feis - Shakspere and Montaigne