No Fear Shakespeare: Coriolanus: Act 4 Scene 6

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Rome. A public place.	A public place in Rome.
Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS	SICINIUS and BRUTUS enter.
SICINIUS We hear not of him, neither need we fear him; His remedies are tame i’ the present peace And quietness of the people, which before Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends 5Blush that the world goes well, who rather had, Though they themselves did suffer by’t, behold Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see Our tradesmen with in their shops and going About their functions friendly.	SICINIUS We haven’t heard about him, so we don’t need to fear him. It would be easy to deal with him now, given the peace and quietness of the people, who were in such chaos before. Now we’re making his friends blush because things are going so smoothly. His friends are the ones who would’ve chosen—to their own detriment—to see people arguing in the streets rather than have our tradesmen back in their shops and happily doing their jobs.
BRUTUS 10We stood to’t in good time.	BRUTUS We turned things around quickly.
Enter MENENIUS	MENENIUS enters.
Is this Menenius?	Is this Menenius?
SICINIUS ’Tis he, ’tis he: O, he is grown most kind of late.	SICINIUS It’s him, it’s him. He has become very kind lately.
BOTH TRIBUNES Hail sir!	BOTH TRIBUNES Greetings, sir!
MENENIUS Hail to you both!	MENENIUS Greetings to you both!
SICINIUS 15Your Coriolanus Is not much miss’d, but with his friends: The commonwealth doth stand, and so would do, Were he more angry at it.	SICINIUS Coriolanus is not missed much by anyone but his friends now. The people would rise up against him if he were still angry at them.
MENENIUS All’s well; and might have been much better, if 20He could have temporized.	MENENIUS That’s good. But things would have gone much better if he could have compromised.