Law of Lombardy

( The ). We have a law peculiar to this realm, That subjects to a mortal penalty All women nobly born... who, to the shame Of chastity, o’erleap its thorny bounds, To wanton in the flowery path of pleasure. Act. ii. 2. On this law Robert Jephson has founded the following tragedy: The Duke Bire´no, heir to the crown, falsely charges the Prince Sophia of incontinence. The villainy of the duke being discovered, he is slain in combat by a Briton named Paladore, and the victor marries the prince (1779).