_Valentine_ (3 _syl._), a gentleman just returned from his travels. In love with Cellide (2 _syl._), but Cellide is in love with Francisco (Valentine’s son).--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Mons. Thomas_ (a comedy, before 1620). _Valentine_ (3 _syl._), a gallant that will not be persuaded to keep his estate.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Wit without Money_ (1639). _Valentine_, brother of Margaret. Maddened by the seduction of his sister, he attacks Faust during a serenade, and is stabbed by Mephistophelês. Valentine dies reproaching his sister, Margaret.--Goethe, _Faust_ (1798). _Valentine_ [LEGEND], eldest son of Sir Sampson Legend. He has a _tendre_ for Angelica, an heiress, whom he eventually marries. To prevent the signing away of his real property for the advance of £4000 in cash to clear his debts, he feigns to be mad for a time. Angelica gets the bond, and tears it before it is duly signed.--Congreve, _Love for Love_ (1695). ⁂ This was Betterton’s great part. _Valentine_ (_Saint_), a Romish priest, who befriended the martyrs in the persecution of Claudius II., and was, in consequence, arrested, beaten with clubs, and finally beheaded (February 14, 270). Pope Julius built a church in his honor, near Pontê Molê, which gave its name to the gate _Porta St. Valentini_, now called “Porta del Popolo,” and by the ancient Romans “Porta Flaminia.” ⁂ The 15th February was the festival of _Februta Juno_ (Juno, the fructifyer), and the Roman Catholic clergy substituted St. Valentine for the heathen goddess. =Valentine and Orson=, twin sons of Bellisant and Alexander (emperor of Constantinople). They were born in a forest near Orleans. While the mother was gone to hunt for Orson, who had been carried off by a bear, Valentine was carried off by King Pepin (his uncle). In due time Valentine married Clerimond, the Green Knight’s sister.--_Valentine and Orson_ (fifteenth century). =Valentine Mortimer=, scatter-brained youth, who accepts against his conscience ill-gotten possessions, and is forced by conscience to renounce them, just before his early death.--Jean Ingelow, _Fated to be Free_ (1875). =Valentine and Violet=, two girls who are made the subject of the curious social experiment described in _The Children of Gibeon_, by Walter Besant (1890). =Valentine de Grey= (_Sir_), an Englishman and knight of France. He had “an ample span of forehead, full and liquid eyes, free nostrils, crimson lips, well-bearded chin, and yet his wishes were innocent as thought of babes.” Sir Valentine loved Hero, niece of Sir William Sutton, and in the end married her.--S. Knowles, _Woman’s Wit, etc._ (1838).