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THE
HISTORY
OF
VALENTINE and ORSON.
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CHAP. I.
The banishment of the Lady Bellisant who is delivered of Valentine and Orson, at one Birth, in a Wood.
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.
