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                    <name>Anna Kroon</name>
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                    various chapbook, picture book, and other editions of Valentine and Orson.</edition>
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                <publisher>Anna Kroon</publisher>
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                <date when="2018-07-25">July 26, 2018</date>
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                    <title>Valentine and Orson</title>
                    <pubPlace>New York</pubPlace>
                    <publisher>Mc Loughlin Bros</publisher></bibl>
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                <p>This project encodes various chapbook, picture book, and other versions of the medieval romance story, Valentine and Orson, using
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                    available versions of this story with project specific encoding guidelines created in accordance with the Text Encoding Initiative
                    P5 Guidelines. The editions and project guidelines are available on the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service and GitHub
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                <p>Texts for this project were selected from the available collections at the Beinecke Rare Books Library, Rare Books and Special
                    Collections at McGill University and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature George A. Smathers Libraries at
                    University of Florida. </p>
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                    <titlePart type="desc">AUNT KATE'S<lb/>SERIES</titlePart>
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                    <titlePart type="main">VALENTINE AND ORSON</titlePart>
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                    <publisher>Mc LOUGHLIN BROS.</publisher>
                    <pubPlace>NEW-YORK.</pubPlace>
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                    <caption>THE EMPEROR'S CRUELTY TO BELLISANT.</caption>
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                <ab>Long years ago, an Emperor,<lb/>A man of might and fame;<lb/>Married a wife, and fair, was she,<lb/>And Bellisant her name.</ab>
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                    <caption>ORSON CARRIED AWAY BY THE BEAR.</caption>
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                <ab>And true and happy were their lives,<lb/>Until an envious man;<lb/>A courtier, high in place and trust,<lb/>An evil tale
                    began.</ab>
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                <fw type="header" place="top">4 Valentine and Orson.</fw>
                <ab>'Twas said, this lady did not love,<lb/>Her royal husband dear;<lb/>And thus an honest wife was made,<lb/>Untruthful to
                    appear.</ab>
                <ab>The Emperor believed the tale,<lb/>And drove her from his side;<lb/>And through the cruel forest glades,<lb/>She wandered far and
                    wide.</ab>
                <ab>Without a friend, without a guide,<lb/>The hapless lady goes;<lb/>Unarmed, except with innocence,<lb/>All burdened with her
                    woes.</ab>
                <ab>To Pepin's court her steps were bent,<lb/>Her brother HE, and king,<lb/>Of mighty France, in that old time,<lb/>Of which I now
                    shall sing.</ab>
                <ab>And as she fled, weighed down by grief,<lb/>And sense of cruel scorn;<lb/>Lo! in the forest, two fair sons,<lb/>To Bellisant were
                    born.</ab>
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                <fw type="header" place="top">Valentine and Orson. 5</fw>
                <ab>All weak and suffering she lay;<lb/>Yet with a mother's joy,<lb/>She pressed her babies to her breast,<lb/>And kissed each lovely
                    boy.</ab>
                <ab>And now, with her returning strength,<lb/>The poor, unhappy wife,<lb/>Began to seek her brother's court,<lb/>And pray for health
                    and life.</ab>
                <ab>One day, while her attendant went<lb/>For food, a great she-bear,<lb/>Sprung from a copse, and bore away<lb/>ONE child unto its
                    lair.</ab>
                <ab>Poor Bellisant pursued the beast,<lb/>And tore her lovely hair;<lb/>Ah me, alas! when she returned,<lb/>The OTHER was not
                    there.</ab>
                <ab>Then up and down the forest drear,<lb/>She vainly sought relief;<lb/>Till at a convent's friendly gate,<lb/>She sank, o'ercome
                    with grief.</ab>
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                    <caption>VALENTINE FOUND BY KING PEPIN.</caption>
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                <ab>And long in sorrow there she dwelt,<lb/>For many a weary year;<lb/>Believing cruel Death had borne,<lb/>Away her children
                    dear.</ab>
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                    <caption>YOUNG ORSON PLAYING WITH THE BEARS.</caption>
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                <ab>Now Pepin chanced, that very day,<lb/>To hunt with all his train;<lb/>In that same wood, and found the child,<lb/>Ere she came
                    back again.</ab>
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                <fw type="header" place="top">8 Valentine and Orson.</fw>
                <ab>Said Pepin, <said>"this is very strange,<lb/>This boy shall now be mine;<lb/>He'll make a pretty play-fellow,<lb/>For litle
                        Eglantine."</said></ab>
                <ab><said>"And by my faith,"</said> the king went on,<lb/><said>"I never wrote a line;<lb/>Yet I will rhyme his name with
                        hers,<lb/>And call him Valentine."</said></ab>
                <ab>Thus reared within that noble court,<lb/>A knight he soon became;<lb/>Whose courtesy and valor blazed,<lb/>Upon the roll
                    fame.</ab>
                <ab>And all his noble deeds were done,<lb/>In praise of Eglantine;<lb/>Who, though her brothers hated him,<lb/>Loved gentle
                    Valentine.</ab>
                <ab>And now, how fared the tender babe,<lb/>Borne off while still alive?<lb/>The wild bear nursed him tenderly,<lb/>And nobly did he
                    thrive.</ab>
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                <fw type="header" place="top">Valentine and Orson. 9</fw>
                <ab>Trough all the country round about,<lb/>As Orson, he was known;<lb/>And with him roamed his brother bear;<lb/>He never went
                    alone.</ab>
                <ab>And Pepin's knights, though armor-clad,<lb/>With sword and lance complete,<lb/>Whene'er they fronted Orson's might,<lb/>Were
                    crushed with sore defeat.</ab>
                <ab>Then said the gentle Valentine;<lb/><said>"I'll seek this monster, when<lb/>He thinks himself secure and safe,<lb/>I'll beard him
                        in his den."</said></ab>
                <ab>But scarcely had he reached the wood,<lb/>When Orson came in sight;<lb/>And man and beast, with horrid yells,<lb/>Rushed fiercely
                    on the knight.</ab>
                <ab>High in the air, a mighty tree,<lb/>Does Orson lightly wield;<lb/>Then drops it, with fearful clang,<lb/>Upon his foeman's
                    shield.</ab>
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                    <caption>THE COMBAT BETWEEN VALENTINE AND ORSON.</caption>
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                <ab>But when he saw his savage face,<lb/>Look from the glitt'ring round;<lb/>With fright and horror overcome,<lb/>He grovelled on the
                    ground.</ab>
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                    <caption>ORSON CHAINING AGRAMONT.</caption>
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                <ab>Then Valentine, with lifted blade,<lb/>And fiercely gleaming eye;<lb/>Unto the kneeling monster said,<lb/><said>"Yield quickly, or
                        you die!"</said></ab>
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                <fw type="header" place="top">12 Valentine and Orson.</fw>
                <ab>So Valentine was conqueror.<lb/>Brave Orson owned his might;<lb/>And lovingly he followed him,<lb/>And served him day and
                    night.</ab>
                <ab>And thus we see how time and tide,<lb/>Brings many a wondrous thing;—<lb/>One brother reared by savage bears,<lb/>The other by a
                    king.</ab>
                <ab>Now in that land a wicked knight,<lb/>Called Agramont, did dwell;<lb/>Who, by his strength, and magic arts,<lb/>A lady did
                    compel,</ab>
                <ab>To languish in a prison dark,<lb/>And none could set her free;<lb/>Not even Valentine prevailed,<lb/>With all his bravery.</ab>
                <ab>But Orson overcame the knight,<lb/>And bound him with a chain;<lb/>And set the lady free, to see,<lb/>The pleasant sun again.</ab>
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                <fw type="header" place="top">Valentine and Orson. 13</fw>
                <ab>And there, within the castle hall,<lb/>They saw a head of brass;<lb/>That told the wonders of their birth,<lb/>And how it came to
                    pass;</ab>
                <ab>That in a convent lonely, pined,<lb/>Their mother Bellisant;<lb/>And that the King and Queen of France,<lb/>Their uncle were, and
                    aunt.</ab>
                <ab>And how the courtier had confessed,<lb/>His guilt with groans and tears;<lb/>And the sad Emperor had sought<lb/>His wife through
                    weary years.</ab>
                <ab>Then quickly to the convent flew,<lb/>These noble brothers, blest,—<lb/>To lead their mother back again,<lb/>To her dear husband's
                    breast.</ab>
                <ab>While once again, to Pepin's court,<lb/>The brothers did repair;<lb/>To claim for Valentine, the hand<lb/>Of Eglantine the
                    fair.</ab>
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                    <caption>THE BROTHERS CONSULTING THE HEAD OF BRASS.</caption>
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                <ab>And Orson, in good time became,<lb/>A brave and noble knight;<lb/>As famed for wisdom in the tent,<lb/>As courage in the
                    fight.</ab>
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                    <caption>THE EMPEROR FINDS HIS LONG-LOST WIFE.</caption>
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                <ab>And wedded to the lovely maid,<lb/>He'd saved from dungeon drear;<lb/>Lived honored at his father's court,<lb/>Through many a
                    happy year.</ab>
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