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But Prince Hal refuses. Prince Hals younger brother John says they pause too long, and should go back out to the battle. He exits, accompanied by Westmoreland.

Prince Hal praises the courage …. The battle has begun. Sir Walter Blunt, disguised as the King, encounters Douglas. Douglas assumes he is the King and tells him that he has earlier killed the Lord of Stafford, who was disguised as the King. They fight, and Douglas kills Blunt. Hotspur enters, and Douglas tells him the battle is over, for he ….

At the rebel camp, Worcester tries to persuade Vernon that they should not inform Hotspur of the Kings offer of a pardon. When Falstaff asks the prince if he's in, Hal plays coy and says something like, "Who me? A thief? Farewell, Allhallown summer. I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage alone. Falstaff, Peto, Bardolph, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. Yourself and I will not be there. And when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my shoulders.

Our vizards we will change after we leave them. And, sirrah, I have cases of buckram for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments. The virtue of this jest will be the incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty at least he fought with, what wards, what blows, what extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this lives the jest. Provide us all things necessary and meet me tomorrow night in Eastcheap.

Falstaff says nighty night to his friends, leaving Poins and Hal alone to plan an elaborate prank on Falstaff. Tomorrow, after Falstaff, Peto, and Bardolph rob the travelers at Gads Hill, Hal and Poins will jump out of the bushes wearing disguises, of course and rob Falstaff of his stolen loot.

This will be hilarious because Falstaff is sure to lie about the whole thing afterward. Prince Hal agrees and says he'll meet Poins in Eastcheap tomorrow night. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That, when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors that did seem to strangle him. Poins leaves and Hal delivers a shocking speech to the audience.

He says he's not really a degenerate — he's just acting that way for now. Eventually, he's going to stage a dramatic reformation from wild child to honorable prince that will amaze everyone. We interrupt this program with a history snack: By the time Shakespeare wrote Henry IV Part 1, folklore surrounding the historic Prince Hal was firmly established. He was remembered fondly as a wild prince who turned into a beloved ruler, King Henry V.

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