Note to Hamlet, 2.2.577-578: "I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall / To make oppression bitter"


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Act 2, Scene 2, lines 577-578
I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall / To make oppression bitter: i.e., I have a nature that is not capable of resenting wrongs. The pigeon (dove) was believed to be mild because it secreted no gall.