Claudius says: "and you must put me in your heart for a friend, if you have heard, and with an attentive ear, that he who killed your noble father pursued my life."(IV;vii;1-4). This suggests to Laertes that they should ally against Hamlet. Claudius thinks of a plan to kill Hamlet in a way that would leave them both innocent. He declares to Laertes "a sword without combat and, in a training exercise, reward him for your father." (4.7.135-137). This means that Claudius wants Laertes to face Hamlet with a sharp, pointed sword, not an angled sword for safety during the duel. Laertes agrees, but he will also put poison on the tip of the sword so that the slightest scratch will kill Hamlet, "I will do it and for this I will anoint my sword. I have bought an acrobat's anointing. , so deadly that, but by plunging a knife into it, where it drowns the blood, no poultice so rare, collected from all the simple people who have virtue under the moon, can save from death a thing which is only 'scratched.'(4.7.138 -144). As Laertes and Hamlet fight both are injured with the poisoned sword, when they realize that they will soon die, the truth is revealed. Laertes tells Hamlet of the plan he had with Claudius and forgives him for the death of his