OpEdNews - Page 3 of Article: Hamlet 4:6 & 4:7

                                   SERVANT
            Sailors, my lord. They were given to Claudio.

                                   CLAUDIUS
                          (to Servant)
            Leave us.

                                   (Servant exits, Claudius opens letter.)

                                   CLAUDIUS (CONT'D)
                          (reading)
            "High and mighty, you shall know I am set naked on your
            kingdom. Tomorrow I shall beg leave to see your kingly eyes,
            when I shall, first asking your pardon, and then recount the
            occasion of my sudden and strange return. Hamlet." (To
            himself.) Have the others come back? Is this some ruse?

                                   LAERTES
            Do you recognize the handwriting?

                                   CLAUDIUS
            It's Hamlet's. "Naked." And in the postscript he says,
            "Alone." I'm at a loss.

                                   LAERTES
            Let him come. This is an elixir to my heart, that I shall
            soon tell him to his teeth: thus diest thou.

                                   CLAUDIUS
            If this is so, and why couldn't or wouldn't it be, then you
            must trust me Laertes.

                                   LAERTES
            As long as you do not attempt to persuade me into peace.

                                   CLAUDIUS
            To thine own peace, only. If he has now returned, I have a
            plan as to how we will end this act. And as for his death,
            no wind of blame will breathe; even his mother will think it
            an accident.

                                   LAERTES
            Tell me my lord, and tell me it is I who will be the
            instrument.

                                   CLAUDIUS
            While on your travel to France there was discussion about
            you, and Prince Hamlet overheard it. The sum of all your
            talent did not pluck such envy from him as one in particular.

                                   LAERTES
            What part, my lord?

                                   CLAUDIUS
            Two months ago a gentleman from Normandy visited. I have
            seen for myself, and have fought against the French myself,
            and they are good on horseback, but this gallant fellow was a
            wizard. He was fused to his saddle, one could say that he
            and the brave beast were one. I could not devise a trick
            where he came up short.

                                   LAERTES
            A Norman?

                                   CLAUDIUS
            Yes.

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