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The Prince of Wales, called Prince Hal, avoids the royal court and instead spends time with the carousing drunkards from the Boar’s Head Tavern, located in Eastcheap (the slums of London). His favorite companion is Sir John Falstaff, an old fat knight who lives dishonorably by getting drunk, lying, and cheating. The friendship between Prince Hal and Falstaff is a strange one; they seem like they have nothing in common, and in fact spend most of their time together insulting each other. This is
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FALSTAFF
Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
PRINCE HAL
Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack and
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