LUCRECE. That is exempted by the law of kind.
TANCRED. That law of kind[56] to children doth belong.
LUCRECE. In due obedience to their open wrong?
TANCRED. I then, as king and father, will command.
LUCRECE. No more than may with right of reason stand.
TANCRED. Thou knowest our mind, resolve[57] her, depart—
Return the chase, we have been chas'd enough.
[TANCRED returneth into his palace, and leaveth the hunt.
LUCRECE. He cannot hear, anger hath stopp'd his ears,
And over-love his judgment hath decay'd
Ah, my poor niece! I shrewdly fear thy cause,
Thy just complaint, shall never be reliev'd.
ACT II., SCENE 3.
GISMUNDA cometh alone out of her chamber.