Find three references to disease or rottenness in Hamlet.

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Marcellus: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Hamlet: "For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god-kissing carrion—have you a daughter?"
Claudius: "Oh my offense is rank, it smells to heaven."

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