Speculation is easily led
astray.
[92] J.M. Synge, _Aran Islands_, p. 10.
[93] The metamorphosis of Hyacinthus, for instance, Bk. X, 162, sqq.;
although there are others in the same book. See also the alteration in the
mulberry caused by Pyramus' blood (pp. 77-80).
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ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTS
TEXTS
THE LEGEND OF PYRAMUS AND THISBE 73
ROBIN GOOD-FELLOW 81
THOMAS OF ERCELDOUNE 122
SCOT'S DISCOVERY OF WITCHCRAFT 133
'STRANGE FARLIES' 141
THE MAD MERRY PRANKS OF ROBIN 144
QUEEN MAB 149
THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL 151
THE FAIRY QUEEN 155
NYMPHIDIA 158
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THE LEGEND OF PYRAMUS AND THISBE
From Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_ (1575), Book
IV, ff. 52-3.
Within the town (of whose huge walls so monstrous high and thick,
The fame is given Semiramis for making them of brick)
Dwelt hard together two young folk, in houses joined so near,
That under all one roof well nigh both twain conveyed were.
The name of him was Pyramus, and Thisbe call'd was she,
So fair a man in all the East was none alive as he.
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