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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70850	The famous history of Valentine and Orson being the two only sons of the Emperour of Greece : deciphering their wonderful births, their valiant atchievements, their heroical minds, and their noble enterprises : drawn up in a short volume ... / written by Laurence Price.; Valentin et Orson (French romance). English.	L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680?	1673 (1673)	Wing P3361; ESTC R2011	6,392	24

otherwise For why she hath conspired your Death acted Treason against your person and the Child which is now in her Womb is of another mans begetting and therefore Noble Sir I think there is no better course to be taken than to send her away to France from whence she came and that suddenly and privily that the world may not take notice of what is done When the Emperour had heard this strange Relation from the false dissembling Arch-traitor his wrath was so much inflamed that he had neither the Patience nor power to forbear but presently ran into the Room where his harmless Lady was sitting all alone in her solitary dumps So taking his advantage ran streightwaies unto her and taking hold of her hair pulled her to the ground beat her on the face with his Fists and stampt upon her with his feet insomuch that the blood issued out from her Nose and mouth so violently that the like was hardly ever seen But at last when he had tired himself with abusing this Lady he stood panting for breath thinking to have gone to her again Mean while she was recovered upon her knees and as she was kneeling she spake to him saying O my dear Lord what is the reason that without cause you deal thus cruelly with me I desire you my good Lord to spare me my life if not for my own sake yet let it be done for the Infants sake which is yet unborn Well quoth the Emperour I will spare thee thy Life but this shall be thy doom that thou shalt for ever be banished from my presence and be sent to thy brother in France with a writing upon thy brest for all that look on thee to read how that for thy disloyalty to thy Husband for thy Treacherous plots devised and for the acting the part of a Strumpet thou art banished the Royal Court of Constantinople and therefore prepare thy self to night to be gone to morrow for here is no longer time for you to abide Chap. III. How the Empress Bellisant being banished by the Emperour travelled into France and the strange births of Valentine and Orson NOW when morning was come the distressed Lady Bellisant was set on horseback according to the Emperours command having no other company to go along with her but one man which was her servant and came out of France with her Now mark what happened to them in their journey for the Proverb saith that one Swallow doth not make a Summer neither doth one misery go by it self As they were passing through a huge and spacious Forrest the Lady found her self grievously distressed and being great with Child alighted from her horse and sent her servant to seek some woman to help her in her extremity she sitting the whilest under the boughs of a tree The Gentleman with diligence made all the haste he could possibly do but before he returned back again the Lady was delivered of two Sons of which an ugly she-Bear coming along caught one of them up and ran away with ●im carrying him to her D●n to be a prey ●or her young ones The Lady pursued the bear to recover her son but in vain she be●ng also so weak that she could not return ●o the place where she had left her other Son ●n the mean time the King having that day been on hunting chanc'd to find him taking him up and putting him to nurse calling his name Valentine Of whom you shall hear more hereafter in the subsequent discourse of his History The Bear as by providence it came to pass never devoured the child that she car●ied to her Den nor had her whelps any power at all to do it any harm so that as the Bears young ones did suck her she gave suck ●o the child also till such time that he became ●ble to shift for himself And when he came ●o be of the age of a man he had humane sence ●ike a man but had not the speech nor use of ●ny language at all and was all overgrown with hair like unto a Bear because he had ●uckt of the Bears milk he was also as wild ●s any savage beast that was in the Forrest ●nd did so many strange exploits destroying of men and women that none durst come near the place where he was The other brother was brought up in the Court of France by the means of King Pepin which was his own Uncle although unknown to them both and they called his name Valentine and the wilde mans name they called Orson Chap. IV. How Valentine conquered Orson and brought him to the Royal Court of his Vncle King Pepin THis Valentine was of such a Noble and heroick courage and gallant behaviour that he was known to be the chiefest and ablest man at Arms that was in all the noted Court of France and would encounter any man that came to oppose him This Valentine hearing the strange reports of Orson how he overcame and conquered all that ever came near him resolved on a time to try his valour courage and magnanimity and venture his life with the wild man Orson not thinking he had been his brother And thus being couragiously mounted on horseback rich and gallantly clad in Armour bright with a most excellent sword by his side he rode to the spacious Forest to find out the wild man which he quickly did and upon his near and sudden approach he found him prepared for the Combate and ready to encounter him for indeed Orson never went unprovided of his great Weapon which was a mighty Club made of an Oaken tree with which at the first salute he gave Valentines Horse such a bang on the Nose that he beat out his brains and then was Valentine bound to fight for his life for to fly it was in vain Thus was the Combate with great courage renewed and Valentine with his sword and Orson with his Club fought along time and drew much blood of one another But at the last Valentine through skill and policy vanquished Orson who was far more stronger than himself and having obtained an absolute conquest immediately after brought him bound to the King of France where many strange and wonderful atchivements were performed by those two Noble brothers Chap. V. How Valentine and Orson went to assist the the Duke of Aquitain where Orson conquered the Green Knight VAlentine and Orson remaining in the Court there arrived a messenger from the Duke of Aquitain who bring admitted into the Kings presence said as followeth Most Mighty King my Master the Duke of Aquitain intreateth your Majesty to commiserate the sad condition of him and his country being invaded by a Pagan called the Green Knight upon no other cause but to take away his only daughter the fair Lady Fezon which he hath sworn to effect unless by some worthy Christian Knight he be vanquished within forty daies many have already adventured against him all which he hath overcome and hanged upon Trees My master therefore humbly craves

your Majesties assistance in this extremity The King hearing this promised him aid and the messenger departed The next day the King with many hardy Knights amongst whom was Valentine who also caused Orson to go with him being naked except an iron Jacket which Valentine had caused to be made for him set forward towards Aquitain where the Duke entertained them as befitted such Royal personages declaring all the deeds which the Green Knight had done and the conquests he had made Valentine hearing this determined to try the might of this Champion So arming himself he rode to his Tent. The Green Knight seeing him presently mounted his steed and between them began a most cruel Combate both giving and receiving many wounds at length the Green Knight said Knight thy valour causeth me to pity thee therefore I advise thee to give over For none can overcome me but the son of a King who never suckt the breast of a Woman now if thou art such a one thou maist overcome me if not thy fighting is vain Notwithstanding Valentine continued the fight till night parted them and both betook themselves to rest Valentine considering the Green Knights words and that himself had suckt the breasts of a woman determined to send Orson to try his fortune with the Green Knight So the next day Valentine put his armour upon Orson who being mounted rod to the Green Knight between whom began a most fierce combate Orson giving him many wounds which he immediately healed with Balsome that he had about him for that purpose Orson seeing this thought it in vain to use his sword any longer sith he could heal himself so quickly and casting it away he betook himself to his Nails where with he so rent his armour and wounded his flesh that he was constrained to fall and submit himself to the mercy of the conquerour The King Valentine and the Duke being joyful of this victory went to the Green Knight who immediately relinquished all his former pretensions consenting to become a Christian and be baptized So after some few daies spent in mirth and triumph the King Valentine and all the Noble Peers of France solemnly took their leaves of the Duke and his fair Daughter the Lady Fezon and returned again to the Court. Chap. VI. How the Treason of the Arch-Priest was discovered and how the Emperour re-called the Lady Bellisant from banishment HAving thus presented you with the disloyal proceedings of the Arch-traytor I shall now return to speak of what became of him who so perfidiously sowed the seed of sedition between the Emperour and the Lady Bellisant The Arch-Priest persisting still in this wicked quality alwaies acting and plotting Treason against one or other he thought at last to have been made Emperour himself But it came to pass that by a miraculous means his treachery was found out and he arraigned for treason who having the sentence of Death pronounced against him confessed That he had been a most horrible forsworn and perjured Villain and that he had been a means to divide the Emperour from his gracious and faithful Lady and how that all the things that were laid to her charge were false This and many other of his faults he openly confessed before the Emperour and the rest of his Noble Lords but as the Old Proverb saith For his open Confession he had open Punishment being adjudged for to ride upon a bare ridg'd Horse with his face towards the Horse tail then to be set three daies with his Ears fast nailed to the Pillory and then his body to be taken and thrown into a Cauldron of boyling Lead which was a just reward for a forsworn Traytor And afterwards the Emperour sent for his Queen and settled her in her Royal Throne of dignity again where they lived many happy years in joy and tranquility And as for their two valiant Sons Valentine and Orson they became the bravest men at Arms that ever Christendom afforded They conquered Gyants subdued Sarazens overcame Cities destroyed Castles and fought many famous and renowned battels against the Enemies of Christendom insomuch that the whole world admired at their couragious enterprises and fortunate success FINIS