Pacolet touches the Golden Oracle, which speaks as follows:
Oracle.
Hear!
Orson is alarmed—Pacolet makes a sign for silence, again touches the head, which proceeds to say:
Oracle.
Orson is endowed with reason!
Orson falls on his knees, and shews his sensibility by thanking the Gods—the head proceeds:
Golden Oracle.
Valentine and Orson are brothers, and sons of the Emperor of Greece, and the much-wronged Empress Belisanta.