Hamlet

Hamlet

ACT IV SCENE VI	Another room in the castle.
	Enter HORATIO and a Servant
HORATIO	What are they that would speak with me?
Servant	Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you.
HORATIO	Let them come in.
	Exit Servant
	I do not know from what part of the world	5
	I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.
	Enter Sailors
First Sailor	God bless you, sir.
HORATIO	Let him bless thee too.
First Sailor	He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for
	you, sir; it comes from the ambassador that was	10
	bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am
	let to know it is.
HORATIO	Reads
	this, give these fellows some means to the king:
	they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old
	at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us	15
	chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on
	a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded
	them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so
	I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with
	me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they	20
	did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king
	have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me
	with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I
	have words to speak in thine ear will make thee
	dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of	25
	the matter. These good fellows will bring thee
	where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their
	course for England: of them I have much to tell
	thee. Farewell.
	'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'	30
	Come, I will make you way for these your letters;
	And do't the speedier, that you may direct me
	To him from whom you brought them.
	Exeunt