What dreadful dole is here!
Eyes, do you see!
How can it be!
O dainty duck! O dear!
Thy mantle good –
What, stained with blood?
Approach, ye Furies fell!
O Fates, come, come,
Cut thread and thrum,
Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1. A distraught Bottom (as Pyramus) believes that his beloved Thisbe has stabbed heself when he finds her cloak covered in blood. However, he is unaware that she dropped her cloak as she ran off, and the lion then bit it with his bloodied teeth.