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  2. Jul 31, 2015 · Synopsis: Prince Hal saves King Henry from death at the hands of Douglas. Hal then meets Hotspur. While they are fighting, Falstaff and Douglas enter, they fight, Falstaff falls down as if he were dead, and Douglas exits. Hal kills Hotspur. Finding Falstaff’s body, Hal briefly mourns his death.

  3. King Henry says he’s sorry that his loyal decoys have been killed. Swearing he is the real king, King Henry prepares to fight Douglas, who still believes the king is just another decoy, albeit one whose posture is particularly kingly.

  4. Honor, he muses, cannot replace or heal a lost or wounded limb. It is of no use to the living, and the dead cannot use it either. He concludes that “Honor is a mere scutcheon”—a heraldic device used at funerals, nothing more than a flimsy decoration for the coffins of the dead (5.1.141).

  5. KING HENRY IV: Stay, and breathe awhile: Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion, And show'd thou makest some tender of my life, 50: In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me. PRINCE HENRY: O God! they did me too much injury: That ever said I hearken'd for your death. If it were so, I might have let alone: The insulting hand of Douglas over you, 55

  6. Falling down and pretending death, Falstaff rises from the deserted field of battle, stabs again the already dead Hotspur, and claims a reward for his actions.

  7. Jul 31, 2015 · Henry IV, Part 1, culminates in the battle of Shrewsbury between the king’s army and rebels seeking his crown. The dispute begins when Hotspur, the son of Northumberland, breaks with the king over the fate of his brother-in-law, Mortimer, a Welsh prisoner.

  8. Summary: Act 1, Scene 3. Hotspur has answered the summons of King Henry and has come to see him at Windsor Castle in order to explain his refusal to hand over the prisoners he captured in Scotland. Hotspur’s father, the Earl of Northumberland, and his uncle, the Earl of Worcester, accompany him.