All 6 Uses of

discourse

in

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

— A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears;—why she, even she,— O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer,—married with mine uncle, My father's brother; but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married:— O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!†
Scene 1.2

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.†
Scene 3.1 *

Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair.†
Scene 3.2

'tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.†
Scene 3.2

Alas, how is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy, And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?†
Scene 3.4

Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd.†
Scene 4.4

Definition:

(discourse)
a serious speech, writing, or conversation on a particular topic

or much more rarely: to speak or write formally on a particular topic; or to have a conversation