Pyramus and Thisbe

           Pyramus and Thisbe were only teenagers when they fell in love with each other, deciding to become a couple. Although their parents forbid the relationship between the two children, even a large wall erected between the two properties could not hold love back. After finding a chink in the wall, the teens talk and formulate a plan to run away and live together. The plan is for them to meet at a mull berry tree outside of Babylon. When Thisbe comes to the tree early, she is scared off by a lion and hides. Meanwhile, the lion, nawing on a bloody animal, gets blood on a veil that Thisbe dropped. When the lion leaves the area, Pyramus sees the lion tracks as well as the bloodied veil of Thisbe. Concluding that Thisbe had been killed, Pyramus stabbed himself. After Pyramus is dead Thisbe comes back and sees her dead lover. She then, out of grief throws herself on Pyramus' still warm with blood sword. After their deaths, Ovid brings in the change that around the time of the year that Pyramus and Thisbe died, the mull berry tree's leaves change color from white to red and black.