1) Pyramus and Thisbe live in ancient Babylon.
2) They are the young children of two rival families.
3) Their homes are connected beside each other.
4) They only whisper their love through a hole in between their walls.
5) They choose to meet under the mulberry tree at dawn.
6) The mulberry tree is next to Ninus's tomb.
7) When Thisbe arrived first, a lioness scares her away.
8) Thisbe left behind her cloak, which the beast tears it up with its bloodly mouth.
9) Pyramus finds Thisbe's bloody, torn cloak and believes she was killed.
10) Pyramus stabs himself, spilling his blood unto the mulberry's fruit.
11) After grieving for the loss of her beloved, Thisbe stabs herself to die with him.
12) The gods honored Pyramus-and-Thisbe's love by keeping the color on the blood-stained fruit.
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