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
 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
 bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am
 let to know it is.

HORATIO [Reads]  'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked
 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
 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
 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
 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.'
 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]




 HAMLET


ACT IV