Julius Caesar
Who are the sick men and how will the "piece of work" make them whole in the quote a "piece of work that will make sick men whole" (2.1.354).
Act two, scene one, line 354
Act two, scene one, line 354
Ligarius is the sick man who wants to fight for the honor of Rome. He says that getting a task from Brutus that honors Rome will make him cast off his sickness: the noble cause will make sick men healthy.
By all the gods that Romans bow before,
I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome,
Brave son derived from honorable loins,
Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up