QUARTO 1: SCENE FOURTEEN

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Another room in the castle.

Enter Horatio and the Queene.

HORATIO 
Madame, your son is safe arrived in Denmark,
This letter I even now received of him,
Whereas he writes how he escaped the danger,
And subtle treason that the king had plotted,
Being crossed by the contention of the winds,
He found the packet sent to the king of England,
Wherein he saw himself betrayed to death,
As at his next conversion with your grace,
He will relate the circumstance at full.

GERTRUDE 
Then I perceive there's treason in his looks
That seemed to sugar o’er his villanie:
But I will soothe and please him for a time,
For murderous minds are always jealous,
But know not you Horatio where he is?

HORATIO 
Yes Madam, and he hath appointed me
To meet him on the east side of the city
Tomorrow morning.

GERTRUDE
O fail not, good Horatio, and withal, commend me
A mothers care to him, bid him a while
Be wary of his presence, lest that he
Fail in that he goes about.

HORATIO
Madam, never make doubt of that:
I think by this the news be come to court:
He is arrived, observe the king, and you shall
Quickly find, Hamlet being here,
Things fell not to his mind.

GERTRUDE
But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft?

HORATIO
He being set ashore, they went for England,
And in the packet there writ down that doom
To be performed on them pointed for him:
And by great chance he had his fathers seal,
So all was done without discovery.

GERTRUDE 
Thanks be to heaven for blessing of the prince,
Horatio, once again I take my leave,
With thousand mothers blessings to my son.

HORATIO
Madam adieu.

Exeunt