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PYRAMUS AND THISBE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 685 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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hero and heroine of a Babylonian love-See also:story told by See also:Ovid (Metam. iv. 55-465). Their parents refused to consent to their See also:union, and the lovers used to converse through a chink in the See also:wall separating their houses. At last they resolved to flee together, and agreed to meet under a mulberry See also:tree near the See also:tomb of See also:Ninus. Thisbe was the first to arrive, but, terrified by the roar of a See also:lion, took to See also:flight. In her haste she dropped her See also:veil, which the lion tore to pieces with jaws stained with the See also:blood of an ox. Pyramus, believing that she had been devoured by the lion, stabbed himself. Thisbe returned to the See also:rendezvous, and finding her See also:lover mortally wounded, put an end to her own See also:life. From that See also:time the See also:fruit of the mulberry, previously See also:white, was always See also:black. See G. See also:Hart, See also:Die Urspryng and Verbreitung der Pyramus- und-Thisbesage (1889-1892).

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