Brewer's: Goneril

One of Lear's three daughters. Having received her moiety of Lear's kingdom, the unnatural daughter first abridged the old man's retinue, then gave him to understand that his company was troublesome.

(Shakespeare: King Lear.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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