You're wrong. Richard III - Act 1, Scene 2 - in the successful wooing of Lady Anne, wife of the dead Henry VI, who Richard killed in Henry VI (Part 3). Richard offers her his sword, kneels down, admits he killed her husband out of love for her, and she cannot bring herself to strike him.
You're right, but that's the difference between the female psyche and the male psyche. Young angry men don't wuss out and fall in love with their tormentors.
Correction. Anne is the wife of Edward, Henry VI's son.