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THE
HISTORY
OF
Valentine and Orson
CHAP. I.
The Banishment of the Lady Bellifant who is delivered of Valentine and Orson, at one Birth, in a Wood.
IT stands upon record, that Pepi King of France, had a fair ⟨sister⟩ named Bellifant, who was married 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 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.
