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.