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Pyramus and Thisbe
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Two lovers who lived in adjoining houses in Babylon, and who used to converse with each other through a hole in the wall, because their parents would not allow them open intimacy, but who arranged to meet one evening at the tomb of Nisus. The maiden appearing at the spot and being confronted by a lioness who had just killed an ox, took to flight and left her garment behind her, which the lioness had soiled with blood. Pyramus arriving after this saw only the bloody garment on the spot and immediately killed himself, concluding she had been murdered, while she on return finding him lying in his blood, threw herself upon his dead body and was found a corpse at his side in the morning.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pyramus and Thisbe'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/pyramus-and-thisbe.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pyramus and Thisbe'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/pyramus-and-thisbe.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
