Crying confusion.
(IV. vi. 27.)
Even Menenius has to give a modified and grudging approval of the new position of things:
All’s well: and might have been much better, if
He could have temporised.
(IV. vi. 16.)
And when the disastrous news comes in, after the first outburst of incredulous wrath and terrified impatience, the two colleagues bear themselves well enough. There is shrewdness and good sense in Sicinius’ words to the citizens:
Go, masters, get you home: be not dismay’d;
These are a side that would be glad to have
This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,