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 was delivered of two lovely children, one of which was conveyed away by a she bear, but she willing to save it, pursued on her hands and knees, leaving the other behind. But before her return King Pepin being a hunting in the forest, came to the tree where she had left the other babe, and causing it to be taken up, sent it to a nurse and when it grew up, he called his name Valentine. Blandiman, at length came back, and instead of finding his mistress, found his brother Pepin at the tree, to whom he declared all that had happened and how his sister was banished through the false suggestions of the arch priest; which when King Pepin heard, he was greatly enraged against the Lady Bellisant, saying, the Emperor ought to have put her to death. So leaving Blandiman, he returned with his nobles to Paris.

The Lady Bellisant having followed the bear to no purpose, returned to the place where she had left the other babe; but great was her sorrow when Blandiman said he had seen her brother Pepin, but could tell nothing of the child; and having comforted her for the loss of it, they went to the sea-side, took shipping and arrived at the castle of the giant Ferragus, in Portugal.

All this while the bear nourished the infant among her young ones, until at length it grew up a wild hairy man, doing great mischief to all that passed through the forest; in which we will leave him, and return to the arch priest who did great mischief, until he was impeached by a merchant, of having wrongfully accused