—Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 3.
Macbeth. The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me
In borrow’d robes?
Angus. Who was the thane, lives yet.
—Ibid.
Ligarius. What’s to do?
Brutus. A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
Ligarius. But are not some whole that we must make sick?
—Julius Caesar, Act ii., Sc. 1.
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;