_VALENTINE enters, followed at cautious distance by HUGO, who puts down a basket containing some cordage, fruits, and a flask, and seems very anxious to be dismissed--VALENTINE, in dumb shew, charges him with a token for EGLANTINE and the KING, and recommending himself to heaven, takes his way into the thicket._ _HUGO, being left alone, seems terrified, and as much afraid to go back, as to follow VALENTINE--looks warily about him, hears a noise, and runs to the cave for shelter--a roar is heard from the cave, HUGO instantly returns running, most whimsically terrified, and pursued by ORSON--HUGO throws his cloak at the wild man, and while he is tearing it to pieces, HUGO runs off--ORSON throws down the cloak, and doubly enraged by the escape of his intended victim, follows._ _VALENTINE re-enters, cannot find the wild man--sees HUGO's cloak, laments his supposed death, and mounts a tree to look out for his enemy._ _ORSON re-enters, and expresses disappointment at not having overtaken HUGO--as he approaches the tree where VALENTINE is, VALENTINE plucks a branch, and throws it at him--ORSON looks up with astonishment, chatters uncouthly to VALENTINE, throws the branch back to him, and beckons him to come down--VALENTINE hesitates--ORSON enraged, immediately ascends the tree--and while he is climbing up one side, VALENTINE gets down on the other, and in turn beckons his opponent.--ORSON makes but one jump from the tree to the ground--runs to VALENTINE, who opposes his polished shield--ORSON seeing his own figure reflected in it, suddenly starts back--VALENTINE, with his sword drawn, keeps ORSON at bay, and leads him round the stage, still wondering at the figure he sees.--ORSON at length struggles for the shield, takes it from VALENTINE, and throws it away--VALENTINE has another shield at his back, which he immediately uses, slightly wounds ORSON with the point of his sword, at which he, enraged, looks round for a weapon, pulls up a young tree by the roots, and uses it as a club._