Act II.

In Wildenvey this is all one scene.

Opens with a rhapsodical conversation between the banished duke and

Amiens on the glories of nature and the joys of out-door life. It is

fully in Shakespeare's tone, but Wildenvey's own invention. After

this the scene continues with II, 1. The first lord's speech in

Wildenvey, however, is merely a free adaptation of the original, and

the later speech of the first lord, describing Jacques' reveries on

the hunt, is put into the mouth of Jacques himself. A few entirely

new speeches follow and the company goes out upon the hunt.

There is then a slight pause, but no scene division, and Shakespeare's

II, 4 follows. This is succeeded again without a break, by II, 5, II,

6, and II, 7 (the opening of II, 7 to the entrance of Jacques, is

omitted altogether) to the end of the act.

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