Hamlet - Page 103

To give it due content.

LAERTES Let this be so:

His means of death, his obscure burial --

No trophy, sword, nor hatchment222 o'er his bones, No noble rite nor formal ostentation223 --

Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,

That I must call in question225.

KING So you shall,

And where th'offence is, let the great axe fall.

I pray you go with me.

Exeunt

[Act 4 Scene 5]

running scene 14

Enter Horatio with an Attendant

HORATIO What are they that would speak with me?

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.

Enter Sailor

SAILOR God bless you, sir.

HORATIO Let him bless thee too.

SAILOR He shall, sir, an't8 please him. There's a Gives a letter

letter for you, sir: it comes from th'ambassador that was

bound for England, if your name be Horatio, as I am let to

know it is.

HORATIO Reads the letter 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked this, give these fellows some means13 to the king: they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a

pirate of very warlike appointment15 gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled16 valour, in the grapple17 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 mercy19, 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 repair21 thou to me with as much haste as thou wouldst fly death. I have words to speak in your ear will

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