Pyramus and Thisbe Translation
Pyramus and Thisbe
Pg.. 43
Line 93: “With the hinge having been turned cleverly, Thisbe departs and devieves her own parents (having veiled her face), and she comes to the tomb and sits under the said tree, love was making her brave. Behold there comes a lioness, having smeared her foaming jaws, from the recent slaughter of cattle, about to satisfy her thirst in the waters in the nearby fountain.
Line 99: Her from a far by the raise of the moon, Babylonian Thisbe saw her and fled with timid steps into a dark cave, and while she is fleeing she leaves behind her veil, having fallen from her back. Line 102: Just as the fierce lioness satisfied her thirst with much water. While she is retuning to the woods, she mangled the blood stained mouth the thing clothing, having been found by chance without the girl herself. 105: “He, having gone out later, Pyramus saw the unmistakable footprints of a beast in the deep dust and Pyramus grew pale throughout his entrie face; But when he found also the cloak stained with blood he said, “one night will destroy two lovers, of which that girl (Thisbe) was most worth of a long life; 110: my soul is guilty. I have killed you wretched girl, I who ordered that you come into places full of fear, and I did not come hither first. Tear my body apart and consume my wicked guts with fierce biting, it is the sign of a timid man to desire death.” He picks up the veil of THisbe and carried the veil with him to the shade of the agreed upon tree. Pg. 47 117: And when he gave tears to the familiar clothing and kisses to the familiar clothing, now reveive also drinks of my blood.” 119: He plunged into his guts the sword, by which he had been equipped, and without delay and dying, he pulled the sword from the boiling wound, and he lay flat on the ground. The blood purts high, not otherwise than when a pipe splits due to faulty lead, and the pipe shoots out long jets from a thing, hissing hole and bursts the air with strokes. The fruits of the
Pg.. 43
Line 93: “With the hinge having been turned cleverly, Thisbe departs and devieves her own parents (having veiled her face), and she comes to the tomb and sits under the said tree, love was making her brave. Behold there comes a lioness, having smeared her foaming jaws, from the recent slaughter of cattle, about to satisfy her thirst in the waters in the nearby fountain.
Line 99: Her from a far by the raise of the moon, Babylonian Thisbe saw her and fled with timid steps into a dark cave, and while she is fleeing she leaves behind her veil, having fallen from her back. Line 102: Just as the fierce lioness satisfied her thirst with much water. While she is retuning to the woods, she mangled the blood stained mouth the thing clothing, having been found by chance without the girl herself. 105: “He, having gone out later, Pyramus saw the unmistakable footprints of a beast in the deep dust and Pyramus grew pale throughout his entrie face; But when he found also the cloak stained with blood he said, “one night will destroy two lovers, of which that girl (Thisbe) was most worth of a long life; 110: my soul is guilty. I have killed you wretched girl, I who ordered that you come into places full of fear, and I did not come hither first. Tear my body apart and consume my wicked guts with fierce biting, it is the sign of a timid man to desire death.” He picks up the veil of THisbe and carried the veil with him to the shade of the agreed upon tree. Pg. 47 117: And when he gave tears to the familiar clothing and kisses to the familiar clothing, now reveive also drinks of my blood.” 119: He plunged into his guts the sword, by which he had been equipped, and without delay and dying, he pulled the sword from the boiling wound, and he lay flat on the ground. The blood purts high, not otherwise than when a pipe splits due to faulty lead, and the pipe shoots out long jets from a thing, hissing hole and bursts the air with strokes. The fruits of the