Pyramus and thisbe wikisource autobiography

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&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;“Pyramus et Thisbē, iuvenum pulcherrimus alter,
altera, quās Oriēns habuit, praelāta puellīs
contiguās tenuēre domōs, ubi dīcitur altam
coctilibus mūrīs cinxisse Semīramis urbem.
nōtitiam prīmōsque gradūs vīcīnia fēcit,
tempore crēvit amor; taedae quōque iūre coissent,
sed vetuēre patrēs; quod nōn potuēre vetāre,
ex aequō captīs ārdēbant mentibus ambō.

"Pyramus and Thisbe, the first the most handsome of young men,
The other, preferred to all the girls whom the Orient held,
occupied adjoining homes, where Semiramis is said
to have surrounded the high city with walls of baked bricks.
Proximity caused acquaintance and first approaches,
love grew with time; They would have come together with the law of the [wedding] torch,
but their fathers forbade [it]; both were burning equally with captured minds,
which they [their fathers] were n The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe - PBworks MECYV