Note to As You Like It, 2.1.5-6: "Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, / The seasons' difference"

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Act 2, Scene 1, lines 5-6.

Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, / The seasons' difference: i.e., Here we suffer only what Adam first suffered after his original sin, the change of seasons. —In Eden, before Adam first sinned, the weather was always early-summer perfect, so the "penalty" for Adam's sin was the change of seasons.
Another note: The original text is "Here feel we not the penalty of Adam," but Lewis Theobald, a great 18th-century editor, recognized that "not" does not make sense in this context, while "but" does.