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SCENE 1
Duke Senior, the banished Duke, speaks highly of the life spent in nature, arguing that there's nothing about it that flatters and gives one a false impression of one's true worth which are sadly commonplace to a life spent in a civilized court. He regrets though that people must inflict pain on nature when venison is sought which prompts one of the lords attending on him to mention Jaques. According to this lord, Jaques has been observed lamenting a deer which had been struck with an arrow, and cursing man for encroaching upon the deer's domain which encroachment Jaques has been heard to argue is as
