"My dread lord, / Your leave and favor to return to France, / From whence though willingly I came to Denmark/ To show my duty in your coronation, / Yet now I must confess, that duty done, / My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France/ And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon."
(1.2 52-58)
While asking for permission to leave Denmark from the king, Laertes says more specifically that his "thoughts and wishes bend again towards France.." I read this as Laertes telling the king in a polite way that he would rather be in France than in Denmark. He uses the words "thoughts and wishes" which gives his desire to leave Denmark a more personal feel. Laertes doesn't seem to like Denmark very much, and in that sense he is quite similiar to Hamlet.
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