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- $Unique_ID{SSP01117}
- $Title{Hamlet: Act IV, Scene VI}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*01100.TXT}
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- Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
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- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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- HAMLET
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- ACT IV
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- SCENE VI: Another room in the castle.
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- {Enter HORATIO and a Servant.}
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- HORATIO: What are they that would speak with me?
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- Servant: Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you.
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- HORATIO: Let them come in.
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- [Exit Servant.]
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- I do not know from what part of the world
- I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.
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- {Enter Sailors.}
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- First Sailor: God bless you, sir.
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- HORATIO: Let him bless thee too.
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- 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 10
- let to know it is.
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- 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, 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 20
- 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; 30
- And do't the speedier, that you may direct me
- To him from whom you brought them.
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- [Exeunt.]
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