Pyramus Thisbe

myth:pyramus_thisbe

Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe: neighbours forbidden by their parents, who whisper through a chink in the shared wall and steal out to meet by a tomb — and die by a cruel mistiming, she fleeing a lion and dropping her veil, he finding it bloodied and killing himself, she returning to fall on his blade. The mulberry stained red forever, and the very mould of Romeo and Juliet. — Greek/Roman myth