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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
