OSRIC  Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes – believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society and great showing. Indeed, to speak sellingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. (5.2.91-97)

Osric finally gets to begin to say his piece, but there’s a lot of throat-clearing before he gets on to the wager, and a LOT of praising of Laertes. (Is this Osric, or Claudius, trying to make Hamlet jealous? or both?) Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes (Horatio and Hamlet can exchange a look, yes, we KNOW)—and Osric’s impressed. Believe me, an absolute gentleman (not when he’s trying to strangle someone and yelling his head off in the grave of his dead sister, necessarily), full of most excellent differences, oh yes, a gentleman of distinction, of very soft society and great showing. So elegant, so courteous; a pleasure to look at and to be around! Oooo, Laertes is lovely! Indeed, to speak sellingly of him—not that he needs promotion—he is the card or calendar of gentry, a model, perfection itself, the one all other gentlemen seek to copy (compare Ophelia describing Hamlet as the perfect courtier, the glass of fashion and the mould of form)—for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. He embodies every possible quality that should go to make up a gentleman; he contains them all. Laertes is the compleat gentleman. Look at him and marvel.