Ah, were it not
That Turandot is daughter of Altoum,
I would have been avenged before to-day.—
But he who killed my father—is her father,
And she is more than life or death, and mightier
Even than a father dead and unavenged:
She is love.
BARAK
Ah, desperate boy, you nurse this love
On worse than poison. Calaf, hark to me.