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KING

                               So you shall.
               And where th’offence is, let the great axe fall. [215]
               I pray you go with me.

                                                                                                        Exeunt.




                                                    Scene VI          IT


                                             Enter Horatio and a Servant.



              HORATIO
          What are they that would speak with me?



              SERVANT
          Seafaring men, 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. [5]


                                                       Enter Sailors.



              1ST SAILOR
          God bless you, sir.



              HORATIO
          Let him bless thee too.




              1ST SAILOR
          A  shall,  sir,  and  please  him.  There’s  a  letter  for  you,  sir.  It  came  from
          th’ambassador that was bound for England − if your name be Horatio, [10] as
          I am let to know it is.



              HORATIO
          (reads the letter.) Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked this, give these
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