HORATIO
  1   What are they that would speak with me?

      Gentleman
  2   Sea-faring men, sir: they say they have letters
  3   for you.

      HORATIO
  4   Let them come in.

           Exit Gentleman.

  5   I do not know from what part of the world
  6   I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.

           Enter SAILORS.

      First Sailor
  7   God bless you, sir.

      HORATIO
  8   Let him bless thee too.

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

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

           Exeunt.