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Hamlet · Act IV · Scene VI

Horatio receives Hamlet's letter

Scene summary

Sailors deliver to Horatio a letter from Hamlet. In it the prince tells that a pirate ship attacked his own, that he was the only one taken prisoner, and that the pirates treated him with generosity. He asks Horatio to take the enclosed letters to the king and to come find him, and warns that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are heading for England. Horatio departs with the sailors.

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