William Shakespeare (1564 -1616). The Oxford Shakespeare. 1914.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Act IV. Scene VI.

Another Room in the Same.
Enter HORATIO and a Servant.
  Horatio What are they that would speak with me?
4 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.
8   Enter Sailors.
  First Sailor God bless you, sir.
  Horatio Let him bless thee too.
  Second Sailor 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.
12 Horatio Horatio, when thou shalt have over-looked 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
16   To him from whom you brought them. [Exeunt.
   
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