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The breaking of “the most precious square of sense” means the
isolation of one sense from another by separate intensities with
the ensuing irrationality and clash among wits and persons and
functions. This breaking of the ratios among wits (or senses)
and persons and functions is the theme of the later
Shakespeare.
As Cordelia observes the flash agility of those specialists
in filial piety, Goneril and Regan, she says:
. . . I am sure my love’s
More richer than my tongue.
Her rational fullness is as nothing to the specialism of her
sisters. She has no fixed point of view from which she can
launch bolts of eloquence. Her sisters are cued for particular