

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern continue on their way to England. I’ve got things to tell you that will make you speechless, and they aren’t even the most important details. Give the king the letters I’ve sent, and come to me as fast as you would run from death. For thieves, they’ve treated me very mercifully, but they knew what they were doing. At that moment, the pirates disengaged from our ship, making me their sole prisoner. Realizing we were too slow to escape, we were forced to fight, and during the battle I boarded the pirate ship. Before we were at sea for even two days, a pirate ship equipped for battle came after us. “Horatio, When you’ve read this, make sure these men see the king. He that thou knowest thine, Hamlet.” Come, I will give you way for these your letters, And do ’t the speedier, that you may direct me To him from whom you brought them. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England.

These good fellows will bring thee where I am. I have words to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb, yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. Let the king have the letters I have sent, and repair thou to me with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy, but they knew what they did I am to do a good turn for them. On the instant, they got clear of our ship, so I alone became their prisoner. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valor, and in the grapple I boarded them. Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. “Horatio, When thou shalt have overlooked this, give these fellows some means to the king.
