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Scene VI.—: Another Room in the Same. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark [1603]Edition used:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare), ed. with a glossary by W.J. Craig M.A. (Oxford University Press, 1916).
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Scene VI.—Another Room in the Same.EnterHoratioand a Servant. Hor.What are they that would speak with me? Serv.Sailors, sir: they say, they have letters for you. Hor.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 Sail.God bless you, sir. Hor.Let him bless thee too. Sec. Sail.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. Hor.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 war-like appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour; 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 haste 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 give you way for these your letters; And do ’t the speedier, that you may direct me To him from whom you brought them. [Exeunt. |
