Chapter I: Front Matter

VALENTINE AND ORSON,

A ROMANTIC MELO-DRAME,

AS PERFORMED AT THE

THEATRE-ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN.

WRITTEN BY T. DIBDIN.

AUTHOR OF

THE JEW and DOCTOR, BIRTH-DAY, WILL for the DEED,
CABINET, ENGLISH FLEET, FAMILY QUARRELS,
IL BONDOCANI, SCHOOL for PREJUDICE, FIVE
THOUSAND a YEAR, SAINT DAVID's DAY,
NAVAL PILLAR, MOUTH of the NILE,
HORSE and the WIDOW, &c. &c.

AND PRODUCED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

MR. FARLEY.

The OVERTURE and MUSIC by MR. JOUVE.

_LONDON_:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY BARKER AND SON,
DRAMATIC REPOSITORY,
GREAT RUSSELL STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1804.

To CHARLES FARLEY.

AS A FEEBLE, THOUGH SINCERE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HIS PROFESSIONAL EXERTIONS, UNREMITTING ZEAL, ATTENTION, AND ASSIDUITY, IN THE STAGE-ARRANGEMENT OF THE FOLLOWING BAGATELLE, ITS PAGES ARE MOST CORDIALLY INSCRIBED BY

T. DIBDIN.

The LADIES and GENTLEMEN, who have so eminently distinguished themselves in the Performance, are also respectfully desired to accept, as they most amply merit, the Author's best Thanks.

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⁂ The Lines marked by inverted Commas, are omitted in Representation.

_CHARACTERS._

FRENCH.

Pepin, _King of France_ Mr. CORY.
Henry, } { Mr. KLANERT.
Haufray, } _his Relations_ { Mr. CLAREMONT.
Valentine, (_a Foundling_) Mr. FARLEY.
Orson, (_a Wild Man_) Mr. DUBOIS.
Hugo, (_Valentine's Armourer_) Mr. BLANCHARD.
Blandiman, (_Page to the Empress_) Mr. CHAPMAN.
Page to Valentine, Master BLANCHARD.

_Peers of France_, _Messrs._ Curties, Lee, &c.

_Citizens of Orleans_, _Messrs._ Abbot, Atkins, Truman, &c.

_Peasants and Pilgrims_, _Messrs._ Byrne, Darley, King, Street, &c.

_Choristers_, _Messrs._ Kenrick, Linton, Odwell, Tett, Thomas, &c.

Alexander, _Emperor of Greece_, Mr. FIELD.
Princess Eglantine, Mrs. St. LEDGER.
Empress Belisanta, _Sister to the King_, Mrs. DIBDIN.
Florimonda, _of Aquitaine_, Mrs. FREDERICK.
Female Pilgrim, Miss MARTYR.
Agatha, (_Attendant on Eglantine_) Mrs. MARTYR.
Cicely, (_an old Peasant_) Mrs. POWELL.

_Nuns_, _Mesdames_ Atkins, Benson, Bologna, Burnet, Castelle, Gaudry,
Iliff, Leserve, Price, Wheatley, &c.

SARACENS.

The Sorcerer Agramant (_the Green Knight_) Mr. BOLOGNA, jun.
Iman, Mr. HARLEY.
The Giant Ferragus, Mons. LE GRAND.
The Genius Pacolet, Master MENAGE.
Golden Oracle, Mr. CRESSWELL.
Guardian of the Giant's Castle, Mr. POWERS.

_The other Characters by Messrs._ L. Bologna, Lewiss, Platt, Sarjant,
Wilde.--Mrs. Blurton, Mrs. Bologna, Miss Cox, Miss Dibdin, Mrs.
Findlay, Mrs. Masters, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Watts, Miss Willis, Mrs.
Whitmore, &c.

The Scenery by RICHARDS PHILLIPS, WHITMORE, HOLLOGAN, &c.--The
Decorations and Machinery by GOOSTREES, SLOPER, and CRESSWELL.

Valentine and Orson.