| 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 | |