All I can tell you here, you should have known yourself.

This ravisher, this man of will, this son of the old Visconti, unlike you,--steadfast, resolute, earnest even in his crimes,--never relinquishes an object.

But one passion controls his lust,--it is his avarice.

The day after his attempt on Viola, his uncle, the Cardinal -- , from whom he has large expectations of land and gold, sent for him, and forbade him, on pain of forfeiting all the possessions which his schemes already had parcelled out, to pursue with dishonourable designs one whom the Cardinal had heeded and loved from childhood.

This is the cause of his present pause from his pursuit.