Persequar extinctum.

Persequar extinctum te, O Pyrame! qui tua rupit
Viscera mucro, iecur transeat ille meum.

Totter doodt.

Pyramus leghdy hier, mijn vvaerde uytvercooren?
Ach spreect indiē ghy kunt! mijn smert die is te groot.
Ghelijck zijn vvy, Mijn Troost! ghevvonnen en gebooren,
Ick gae met u ghelijck oock vvillich inde doodt.

Iusques a la mort.

Pyrame fut jadis c'est amoureux fidele,
Pour qui mourut Thysbe comme il mourut pour elle:
Tous deux avoient fiché mesme traict dans le flanc,
Tous deux estoint esgaux en noblesse de sang,
Tous deux riches & grands des faveurs de fortune,
Tous deux nais en Babel, d'une ville commune,
Et tous deux si voysins qu'un viel mur seulement,
De leurs prochains logis partoyt le bastiment.

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I will follow him into death.

Oh, Pyramus! I will follow you into death.
The sword that tore open your innards,
May that now pass through my liver.

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Upon the discovery of the body of Pyramus, dying at the foot of a fountain, Thisbe throws herself on his sword

beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion (+ female animal) [25F23(LION)(+23)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion (+ walking animal) [25F23(LION)(+5211)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion (+ animal looking over the shoulder) [25F23(LION)(+547)]
swimming mammals: dolphin (+ ornamental variants of animals) [25F27(DOLPHIN)(+15)]
trees [25G3]
tot, toddler ~ the ages of man [31D1121]
statues, sculptures in garden [41A641]
pyramids (garden ornaments) [41A643]
garden fountain [41A651]
'Fermezza d'amore' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2513(+4)]
'Fermezza d'amore' (Ripa) (+ 'exemplum', representation of exemplary (historical) event) [56F2513(+5)]
'Passione d'amore' (Ripa) (+ 'exemplum' belonging to a traditional series of 'exempla') [56F2518(+51)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(PERSEQUAR EXTINCTUM)]
Thisbe, fleeing from a lioness, drops her veil (the scene may be situated near a fountain) (+ variant) [95A(PYRAMUS & THISBE)22(+0)]
Thisbe kills herself with Pyramus' sword (the scene may be represented near a fountain) [95A(PYRAMUS & THISBE)241]

Persequar extinctum [21]

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