1    What are they that would speak with me?

2    Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you.

3    Let them come in.
Exit Servant
4    I do not know from what part of the world
5    I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.

6    God bless you, sir.

7    Let him bless thee too.

8    He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for
9    you, sir; it comes from the ambassador that was
10   bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am
11   let to know it is.

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12    'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked
13   this, give these fellows some means to the king:
14   they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old
15   at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us
16   chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on
17   a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded
18   them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so
19   I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with
20   me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they
21   did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king
22   have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me
23   with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I
24   have words to speak in thine ear will make thee
25   dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of
26   the matter. These good fellows will bring thee
27   where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their
28   course for England: of them I have much to tell
29   thee. Farewell.
30   'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'
31   Come, I will make you way for these your letters;
32   And do't the speedier, that you may direct me
33   To him from whom you brought them.