Laertes
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Laertes has 167 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 23 references, with 13 live disagreements.
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- Say you so? Come on.[23]all time · 78
- Have at you now.[23]all time · 78
- Why, as a woodcock to my own springe, Osric.[23]all time · 78
- I am justly kill’d with mine own treachery.[23]sourceall time · 78
- It is here, Hamlet.[23]all time · 78
- Hamlet, thou art slain.[23]sourceall time · 78
- No medicine in the world can do thee good.[23]sourceall time · 78
- In thee there is not half an hour of life;[23]sourceall time · 78
- The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,[23]sourceall time · 78
- Unbated and envenom’d.[23]sourceall time · 78
Inbound mentions (72)
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Other facts (103)
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| Predicate | Value | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Addresses | sister | [2] |
| Addresses | King | [12] |
| Addresses | Ophelia | [14] |
| Addresses | Osric | [23] |
| Addresses | Hamlet | [23] |
| Speaks | My necessaries are embark'd. Farewell. And, sister, as the winds give benefit And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, But let me hear from you. | [2] |
| Speaks | For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. | [2] |
| Speaks | Laertes Line 1 | [18] |
| Characterizes | not permanent | [2] |
| Characterizes | sweet | [2] |
| Characterizes | not lasting | [2] |
| Speaks to | Polonius | [5] |
| Speaks to | King | [8] |
| Speaks to | King | [13] |
| Gives Advice to | Ophelia | [2] |
| Gives Advice to | Ophelia | [5] |
| Describes Hamlet Favour As | fashion and a toy in blood | [2] |
| Describes Hamlet Favour As | violet | [2] |
| Mentions | winds | [2] |
| Mentions | convoy | [2] |
| Status | Secret | [7] |
| Status | dead | [23] |
| Asks | King | [8] |
| Asks | King | [10] |
| Has Attribute | Excellence | [13] |
| Has Attribute | Hot and Dry | [13] |
| Has Quality | soft society | [19] |
| Has Quality | great showing | [19] |
| Has State | incens'd | [23] |
| Has State | fallen | [23] |
| Requested Permission From | King | [1] |
| Destination | France | [1] |
| Origin | Denmark | [1] |
| Purpose of Visit | King's Coronation | [1] |
| Wishes to Return to | France | [1] |
| Petitioned for | leave to go | [1] |
| Received Blessing From | King | [1] |
| Relationship to | Ophelia | [2] |
| Compares Hamlet Favour to | violet in youth of primy nature | [2] |
| Characterizes Hamlet Favour | Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting | [2] |
| Describes Hamlet Favour Duration | perfume and suppliance of a minute | [2] |
| Warns | Ophelia | [2] |
| About | Hamlet | [2] |
| Metaphor for | youth | [2] |
| Necessaries | embark'd | [2] |
| Exits | Stage | [5] |
| Says to Ophelia | remember well What I have said to you | [5] |
| Gives Advice to Ophelia | Ophelia | [5] |
| Exits Scene | Stage | [5] |
| Child of | Polonius | [6] |
| Originated From | France | [7] |
| Has Support | The Rabble | [7] |
| Rebellion Looks Giant Like | true | [8] |
| States Opinion | This nothing’s more than matter | [9] |
| Addresses As | Ophelia | [9] |
| Refers to Speech As | Document in Madness | [9] |
| Father Slain by | He | [10] |
| Had Father | Noble Father | [11] |
| Lost Father | true | [11] |
| Has Sister | Sister Laertes | [11] |
| Intends Revenge | true | [11] |
| Sibling of | Laertes Sister | [13] |
| Requested to Stay in | Chamber | [13] |
| May Choose | Sword Unbated | [13] |
| May Choose With | Ease | [13] |
| May Use | Little Shuffling | [13] |
| Intends to Requite | Hamlet | [13] |
| Agrees to | Plan | [13] |
| Intends to Anoint | Sword | [13] |
| Will Touch | Point | [13] |
| Intends to Gall | Hamlet | [13] |
| Condition | Hot and Dry | [13] |
| Asks Location | Laertes Sister | [13] |
| Agent of | Plan | [13] |
| Recently Arrived at | court | [19] |
| Full of | most excellent differences | [19] |
| Described As | card or calendar of gentry | [19] |
| Requests Foils | Foil Weapon | [21] |
| Interprets Action As | Mockery | [21] |
| Enters Stage | enter-action | [22] |
| Claims Satisfaction in Nature | satisfied-in-nature | [22] |
| Refuses Reconcilement | no-reconcilement | [22] |
| Goal of Precedent | keep-my-name-ungored | [22] |
| Receives Offered Love | your-offered-love | [22] |
| Wounds | Hamlet | [23] |
| Scuffles With | Hamlet | [23] |
| Exchanges Weapon With | Hamlet | [23] |
| Wounded by | Hamlet | [23] |
| Compares Self to | woodcock | [23] |
| Trapped by | Own Device | [23] |
| Cause of Death | Own Treachery | [23] |
| Falls | Falling Action | [23] |
| Informs | Hamlet | [23] |
| Identifies Object | Treacherous Instrument | [23] |
| Located in Hand | Hamlet | [23] |
| Will Not Rise | true | [23] |
| Attributes Blame to | King | [23] |
| Judges | King | [23] |
| Requests | Hamlet | [23] |
| Absolves | Hamlet | [23] |
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References (23)
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CORNELIUS and VOLTEMAND. In that, and all things, will we show our duty. KING. We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell. [ Exeunt Voltemand and Cornelius . ] And now, Laertes, what’s the news with you? You told us of some suit. What is’…
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HORATIO. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But look, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill. Break we our watch up, and by my advice, Let us impart what we have seen tonight Unto young H…
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LAERTES. Think it no more. For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now, And now no soil nor cautel doth besmi…
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And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion’d thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them un…
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THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK by William Shakespeare Contents ACT I Scene I. Elsinore. A platform before the Castle Scene II. Elsinore. A room of state in the Castle Scene III. A room in Polonius’s house Scene IV. The plat…
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O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs All from her father’s death. O Gertrude, Gertrude, When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. First, her father slain; Next, your son gone; and he most violent autho…
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KING. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?— Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person. There’s such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.—Tel…
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LAERTES. This nothing’s more than matter. OPHELIA. There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. LAERTES. A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted. OPHELIA. Th…
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FIRST SAILOR. He shall, sir, and’t please him. There’s a letter for you, sir. It comes from th’ambassador that was bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is. HORATIO. [ Reads. ] ‘Horatio, when thou shalt have …
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LAERTES. And so have I a noble father lost, A sister driven into desperate terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount of all the age For her perfections. But my revenge will come. KING. Break not your…
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KING. A very riband in the cap of youth, Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears Than settled age his sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. Two months since Here was a gen…
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KING. No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. But good Laertes, Will you do this, keep close within your chamber. Hamlet return’d shall know you are come home: We’ll put on those shall praise your ex…
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QUEEN. There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoary leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name…
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HAMLET. Let me see. [ Takes the skull. ] Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge ris…
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HAMLET. An earnest conjuration from the King, As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish, As peace should still her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma ’tween their amities, And many su…
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QUEEN. This is mere madness: And thus awhile the fit will work on him; Anon, as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclos’d, His silence will sit drooping. HAMLET. Hear you, sir; What is the reason that y…
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LAERTES. Must there no more be done? PRIEST. No more be done. We should profane the service of the dead To sing sage requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls. LAERTES. Lay her i’ th’earth, And from her fair and unpollu…
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HAMLET. I will receive it with all diligence of spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; ’tis for the head. OSRIC. I thank your lordship, ’tis very hot. HAMLET. No, believe me, ’tis very cold, the wind is northerly. OSRIC. It is ind…
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OSRIC. The King, sir, hath wager’d with him six Barbary horses, against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so. Three of the carriages, in faith, are very dea…
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HAMLET. I embrace it freely, And will this brother’s wager frankly play.— Give us the foils; come on. LAERTES. Come, one for me. HAMLET. I’ll be your foil, Laertes; in mine ignorance Your skill shall like a star i’ th’ darkest night…
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HAMLET. I am constant to my purposes, they follow the King’s pleasure. If his fitness speaks, mine is ready. Now or whensoever, provided I be so able as now. LORD. The King and Queen and all are coming down. HAMLET. In happy time. LOR…
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LAERTES. Say you so? Come on. [ They play. ] OSRIC. Nothing neither way. LAERTES. Have at you now. [ Laertes wounds Hamlet; then, in scuffling, they change rapiers, and Hamlet wounds Laertes . ] KING. Part them; they are incens’d.…
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- Person
- King
- France
- Denmark
- King's Coronation
- Polonius
- Ophelia
- Hamlet
- Stage
- Secret
- The Rabble
- Character
- Document in Madness
- He
- Noble Father
- Sister Laertes
- Laertes Sister
- Chamber
- Excellence
- Sword Unbated
- Ease
- Little Shuffling
- Plan
- Sword
- Point
- Hot and Dry
- Speaker
- Laertes Line 1
- Absolute Gentleman
- Foil Weapon
- Mockery
- Osric
- Own Device
- Own Treachery
- Falling Action
- Treacherous Instrument
- Laertes Father
- Death Event
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