Simplify the following text for a Grade 5 native English-speaking person.
Original: Between bouts , Laertes attacks and pierces Hamlet with his poisoned blade ; in the ensuing scuffle , Hamlet is able to use Laertes 's own poisoned sword against him .
Simplified: Hamlet is cut with the poisoned sword , but then stabs Laertes with the same sword . Laertes tells Hamlet about the plot and then dies .