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.