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1
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Goneril, 1.1 [to Regan]

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“You see how full of change his age is”

2
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Goneril, 1.3

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“Old fools are babes again”

3
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Goneril, 2.4 [to Lear]

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“What need you five-and-twenty? Ten? Or five?”

4
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Goneril, 1.5 [to Albany]

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“this milky gentleness and course of yours”

Macbeth: “Milk of human kindness”

5
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Goneril, 3.7

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“Pluck out his eyes”

6
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Goneril, 4.2 [to Albany]

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“Milk-liver’d man!

That bear’st a cheek for blows”

7
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Goneril, 5.1

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“I had rather lose the battle than that sister

Should loosen him and me”

8
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Goneril, 5.3 [aside]

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“If not I’ll ne’er trust medicine”

9
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J. Stampfer

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“[Goneril] is, from the point of view of conscience, an animal or beast of prey”

10
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Hazlitt

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“Their deliberate hypocrisy adds the lasting finishing to the odiousness of their characters”

11
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Goneril, 1.1 [to Lear]

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“I love you more than words can wield the matter”