At the tavern, Falstaff relates an elaborate taleof being accosted by a hundred men who stole hisbooty. In the meantime, however, Prince Hal plays a jokeon Falstaff: after Falstaff has committed a robbery atGadshill, he is robbed in turn by a disguised PrinceHal. Though King Henry is annoyed when Hotspurrefuses to hand over his captives to the crown, he admiresHotspurs bravery and wishes his own son, Hal, displayedthe same noble qualities.Prince Hal prefers to spend his time frequenting thetaverns of Eastcheap with the errant knight, Falstaff.Though Prince Hal has been leading a life of drinking anddebauchery, he acknowledges that he will take up his royalduties and join his father when the time is right, therebyredeeming himself publicly and seeming more virtuous andnoble. On another battlefront HenryPercy, nicknamed Hotspur, has quashed a Scottishuprising. He is aruler beset with troubles: rebellion in England and attacksby Scottish forces moving across the northern border.Henry postpones his crusade to the Holy Land when helearns of the defeat and capture of his loyal Mortimer by theScottish warrior, Glendower. K ing Henry IV tenuously rules England as a man whousurped the throne and is not ordained by God.
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