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Another room in the castle.
[Enter HORATIO and a Servant]
HORATIO
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What are | they that | would speak | with me?|
SERVANT
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Sailors | sir, they | say they | have letters
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HORATIO
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I do | not know | from what | part of | the world
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I should | be greet|ed, if not | from Lord | Hamlet.
[Enter Sailors]
FIRST SAILOR
God bless you sir.
HORATIO
Let him bless thee too.
FIRST SAILOR
He shall sir, and it please him. There's a letter for you sir: it comes from
the ambassadors 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 valor. 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 your 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.
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Come, I | will give | you way | for these | your
letters,
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And do | it the speed|ier, that | you may |
direct || me
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To him | from whom | you brought | them. \\
[Exeunt]