My emerald!


[HYGD stirs uneasily in her sleep.]


Physician:

Speak lower, low; for your good fame, speak low--
If she should waken thus ...


Lear:

There is no wise man
Believes that medicine is in a jewel.
It is enough that you have failed with one.
Seek you a common stone. I'll not do it.
Let her eat heartily: she is spent with fasting.
Let her stand up and walk: she is so still
Her blood can never nourish her. Come away.


Physician:

I must not leave her ere the woman comes--
Or will some other woman ...


Lear: