FOURTH PRISONER (efficiently). I’m the prison medical doctor. We met in less happy times. I said I was in good standing with the government. My papers confirmed that. I’m just waiting for more papers and then I’ll be given a post of more obvious trust and importance. We’re ready to begin.

LEAR. What are you doing?

FOURTH PRISONER. A little autopsy. Not a big one. We know what she died of.

[... …]

LEAR. She sleeps inside like a lion and a lamb and a child. The things are so beautiful. I am astonished. I have never seen anything so beautiful. If I had known she was so beautiful ... Her body was made by the hand of a child, so sure and nothing unclean ... If I had known this beauty and patience and care, how I would have loved her. Did I make this – and destroy it?

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