Sceona Teritus: This scene was originally Act II Scene 1 

Forresters: forest-dwellers

Coe-mates: companions

painted pompe: artificial splendor

the penaltie of Adam: the hardship suffered by all people since Adam of Genesis.

Icie phange: icy fang

churlish: rude, violent

chiding: scolding

feelingly: by means of my sense, by experience

Sweet are the uses of adversitie: proverbial, "Adversity makes men wise"

exempt from public haunt: free from interruption by other people, free of contact from the mass of mankind

venison: deer, these could only be taken with permission from the king

Burghers: citizens

forked heads: the barbed heads of arrows, which are compared to the antlered heads of the male deer themselves

melancholy: morose, world-weary; the affectation of the 'humour' was fashionable at the time

Jaques: the French name, pronounced with two syllables, was adopted by some Englishmen to show they had been abroad.

sequestered: separated from the herd

marked: observed by

moralize: give a moral interpretation to

invectively: vehemently, passionately, in an abusive way

assign'd and native dwelling place: natural habitat

commenting: meditating

cope: debate with

matter: ideas