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(perhaps) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Legend of Good Women (f. pr. 1532). The tale of Thisbe.

(perhaps) Huon of Bordeaux. Trans. Lord Berners (pr. c. 1515).

Moffet, Thomas. The Silkworms and Their Flies: Described in Verse (1590).

Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. Arthur Golding (1567).

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Trans. Thomas North (1595). 'Life of Theseus.'

(perhaps) Proctor, Thomas. A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (anthology, 1578). Story of Pyramus and Thisbe.

(perhaps) Robinson, Clement, ed. A Handful of Pleasant Delights (verse anthology, pr. c.1575). 'A New Sonnet of Pyramus and Thisbe' by I. Tomson.

(perhaps) Scot, Reginald. The Discovery of Witchcraft (1584).

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