This defect, though, has been noted by none through long ages, but what does love not know? You, o lovers, firstly have seen it, and safely through it your amorous talk has grown accustomed to journey with the slightest whisper. The wall common to both their houses held a crack which was formed when once the wall was made. When all observers are away, they speak with a nod and in signs, and the more that their love is hidden, the more that the hidden love burns. Their proximity made the first steps for acquaintance love grew in time, and the wedding torches would have been joined by law, but the parents forbade that which they were not able to forbid, for both burned equally with enraptured minds. Pyramus and Thisbe-one of the pair the most beautiful of youths the other, most esteemed of those girls whom the Orient held-lived in houses side-by-side, where it is said that Semiramis has girded her high city with baked-brick walls.
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