End of semester Atest English 12

In this excerpt from act IV, scene VII, of Hamlet, which phrase supports the theme of disease, rotting, and decay?LAERTES: Know you the hand?


KING: 'Tis Hamlet's character: "Naked"!

And in a postscript here, he says "alone."

Can you devise me?


LAERTES: I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come,

It warms the very sickness in my heart

That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,

'Thus didst thou.'


KING: If it be so, Laertes–

As how should it be so? how otherwise?–

Will you be rul'd by me?


LAERTES: Ay, my lord,

So you will not o'errule me to a peace.