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...124 Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, 126 Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous...fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet; good apothe- BO cary, sweeten my imagination! There's money for thee. GLOUCESTER O, let me kiss that hand....

...suggest was written after Shakespeare learned he had contracted syphilis, in which Lear says of women: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit — burning, scalding, Stench,...

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...sexuality through the image of a female centaur conceived in terms strongly reminiscent of Scylla: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, / There is the sulphurous pit — burning scalding, / Stench,...

...and the Figures of Speech by Craig Kallendorf "He apprehends a world of figures here." (IHenI¥lm209) "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's." (KL IV.vi. 123-26) Madeleine Doran has observed that "English Renaissance drama is rhetorical...