Category: Romance

Valentine and Orson: A Romantic Melo-Drame As Performed at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden

_A long Perspective of the Suburbs of Orleans, terminating with the ancient City Gates--On one Side a Convent, the Windows of which are illuminated from within--The Stage is at first dark, which gives Effect to the Transparency of the Windows--As the Curtain rises slowly, the...

Chapters

1. SCENE I.--

_A long Perspective of the Suburbs of Orleans, terminating with the ancient City Gates--On one Side a Convent, the Windows of which are illuminated from within--The Stage is at...

7. SCENE II.--

Ha! ha! ha! the wild man has began to shew his breeding with a vengeance--he has overturned the kitchen, set the cellar afloat, and sent every thing in the stable to rack and ma...

5. SCENE V.--

Troth, I am weary;--let us rest awhile; for when the wild man is once killed, this forest will be quite safe, and things will run in the right road again.

4. SCENE IV.--

There--I have made Lord Valentine's shield so bright, that if the wild man does but see his face in it, he may haply take fright at his own ugly features. It's monstrous unlucky...

2. SCENE II.--

He thinks his sister guilty. Was I not banished by my husband the Emperor of Greece, fatally wrought on by traiterous slander, when, you, alone, accompanied a weak, defenceless...

10. SCENE V.--

_The Encampment and Pavilion of the Green Knight--on one Side a large Oak Tree, on which several Knights in shining Armour, are seen hanging--on the other Side is a Tree, to whi...

6. SCENE I.--

_Officers and Servants run on terrified--go in at the great gates, and make them fast--VALENTINE enters on horseback, leading ORSON, who seems amazed at every thing around him--...

3. SCENE III.--

_The KING discovered on his Throne, attended by VALENTINE, HENRY, HAUFRAY, and the Peers of France--the Princess is announced by her Ladies, and enters--the KING presents VALENT...

9. SCENE IV.--

There goes my lady, drest and arm'd so like Sir Valentine, that if he were to meet her, he'd think it were a second self. She bade me follow at some distance to avoid suspicion,...

12. SCENE VII.--

_A Magic Chamber in the Castle_--(Whitmore.) _In the Centre, on a Pillar, a golden Head, and on one side of it, stands the enormous Giant FERRAGUS, leaning on a massive Club--VA...

8. SCENE III.--

_ORSON enters, pleased at the sight, goes from one table to the other--the KING orders him wine, he imitates their manner of drinking--takes another cup, is going to drink, VALE...

13. SCENE VIII.--

11. SCENE VI.--

_They rush on VALENTINE and ORSON, are overthrown and sink--as VALENTINE and ORSON are proceeding, a Lion enters, VALENTINE presents the magic ring, and the Lion disappears--PAC...