pigeon-livered

It cannot be But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall To make oppression bitter; or 'ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.

Forget fairness to the Governor, whose public cudgeling of his brain was a matter for political commentary; in linguistic affairs, as we equate the compound comparative Hamlet-like with indecision, usually synonymous with "pigeon-livered," we must consider fairness to Shakespeare's most famous character.