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Pyramus and Thisbe
     
Pyramus and Thisbe
in ancient Roman stories, a pair of lovers who killed themselves because each thought the other one was dead. They are best known from the play about them which Bottom and his friends perform in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
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