The general, that gave way to cruelty,

The profanation of things sacred, rapes

Of virgins, butchery of infants, and

The massacre in cold blood of reverend age,

Against the discipline and law of arms,

Did feel the hand of heaven lie heavy on him

When most secure.[170]

In the second Gonzaga refuses the hand of his daughter Matilda to Lorenzo:

Gonzaga. Two main reasons

(Seconding those you have already heard)