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.