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Legendary Babylonian lovers whose story was
retold by Ovid. Pursued by a lioness, Thisbe
lost her veil, and when Pyramus arrived at
their meeting-place, he found it
bloodstained. Assuming Thisbe was dead, he
stabbed himself, and she, on finding his
body, killed herself. In A Midsummer Night's
Dream, the `rude mechanicals' perform the
story as a farce for the nobles.