THE
HISTORY
OF
VALENTINE and ORSON.
CHAP. I.
IT stands upon record, that Pepin, King of France, had a fair sister named Bellisant, who was married to Alexander, the Emperor of Greece, and by him carried to his capital at Constantinople; from whence, after having lived with great virtue, she was banished through the means of a false accuser, whom she had severely checked for his impudence; and though at that time she was big with child, yet she was compelled to leave her husband's empire, to the great regret of the people, attended only by a Squire named Blandiman.
After great fatigue and travel, she arrived in the forest of Orleans, where, finding her pains come thick upon her, she dismissed her attendant for a midwife, but before his return, was delivered of two lovely children, one of which was conveyed away by a she-bear, but she willing to save it, pursued on her
