The Tyrant has usurped King Govianus and endeavors to charm away The Lady, the sweetheart of Govianus. Be that as it may, she pledges faithfulness to Govianus. Indeed, even under strain from her dad, Helvetius, to acknowledge the Tyrant, she stays consistent with her sweetheart. The Tyrant at that point detains her with Govianus and endeavors to drive her to love him. Declining to give in she asks Govianus to execute her. He can't in view of his adoration for her. She at that point murders herself. The Tyrant, resolved to have her, regardless of whether dead, expels her body from her tomb to rule as his ruler.
Interim, Anselmus, wishing to test his significant other's constancy, asks his companion, Votarius, to endeavor tempt her. However, when he rendezvous with The Wife, they experience passionate feelings for. Stressed that Anselmus will find their issue, they frame an arrangement. While Anselmus is inside earshot, she will put on a show to rebuke the advances of Votarius. To make it practical she will wave a sword and maybe even give Votarius a little twisted. At the point when the event emerges she uses the sword to repel Votarius. A worker has harmed the tip of the sword: she brushes Votarius skin, and he kicks the bucket.
Govianus, in jail, has a dream of the phantom of The Lady. The apparition advises him of The Tyrant's bleak distraction with her dead body. Govianus starts to design his requital. He is in the end discharged from jail and he puts his arrangement without hesitation. He applies toxic substance to the cadaver's lips at that point paints her face to influence her to seem to have returned to life. At the point when The Tyrant sees her, he says, "O, she lives once more!" He kisses her and he bites the dust. The nobles announce Govianus the legitimate lord.
