Than ours doth ask, and will not be denied,
—His children’s lives!
Xim. Alas! this may not be:
Mother!—I cannot.
[Exit Ximena.
Gon. My heroic child!
—A terrible sacrifice thou claim’st, O God!
From creatures in whose agonising hearts
Nature is strong as death!
Elm. Is ’t thus in thine?