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"Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit; beneath is all the fiends'. There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption! Fie, fie, fie, pah, pah!"

This is an excerpt from ______ by William Shakespeare.

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This is an excerpt from King Lear by William Shakespeare.

Step-by-step explanation:

The excerpt above was taken from "King Lear" a play of the genre tragedy, written by Shakespeare. The excerpt above is found in Act 4, Scene 6.

King Lear, tells the story of a very old king, who shares the governance of his kingdom with his three daughters, but ends up being brutally betrayed by two of them, going mad soon after. In this play, Shakespeare uses many folk figures from ancient British legends and shows all his talent as a great writer.

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