PYRAMUS AND THISBE  , the See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero and heroine of a Babylonian love-See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story told by See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid (Metam. iv . 55-465) . Their parents refused to consent to their See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union, and the lovers used to converse through a chink in the See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall separating their houses . At last they resolved to flee together, and agreed to meet under a mulberry See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree near the See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb of See also:

• NINUS

Ninus . Thisbe was the first to arrive, but, terrified by the roar of a See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

lion, took to See also:

• FLIGHT

flight . In her haste she dropped her See also:

• VEIL (O.Fr. veile, mod. voile, from Lat. velum, cloth, awning, sail)

veil, which the lion tore to pieces with jaws stained with the See also:

• BLOOD

blood of an ox . Pyramus, believing that she had been devoured by the lion, stabbed himself . Thisbe returned to the See also:

• RENDEZVOUS

rendezvous, and finding her See also:

• LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868)

lover mortally wounded, put an end to her own See also:

• LIFE

life . From that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of the mulberry, previously See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white, was always See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black . See G . See also:

• HART, ALBERT BUSHNELL (1854– )
• HART, CHARLES (d. 1683)
• HART, ERNEST ABRAHAM (1835–1898)
• HART, SIR ROBERT
• HART, WILLIAM (1823–1894)

Hart, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Urspryng and Verbreitung der Pyramus- und-Thisbesage (1889-1892) .