King. Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think[1854] 30
That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
That we can let our beard be shook with danger[1855]
And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more:[1856]
I loved your father, and we love ourself;[1857]
And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine—[1858] 35
Enter a Messenger, with letters.
How now! what news?[1859]
Mess. Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:
This to your majesty; this to the queen.[1860]
King. From Hamlet! who brought them?[1861]
Mess. Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not:
They were given me by Claudio; he received them 40
Of him that brought them.
King. Laertes, you shall hear them.[1862]
Leave us. [Exit Messenger.[1863]
[Reads] 'High and mighty, You shall know I am set[1864]
naked on your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave[1865]
to see your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your[1866][1867] 45
pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden and[1866][1868][1869]
more strange return.[1869]
'Hamlet.'[1870]
What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?[1871] 50
Laer. Know you the hand?