Chapter XXV: Romeo and Juliet

The goodly Hystory of the true, and constant Loue between Rhomeo and Ivlietta, the one of whom died of Poyson, and the other of sorrow, and heuinesse: wherein be comprysed many aduentures of Loue, and other deuises touchinge the same.

[_Source._--Bandello, Part ii., nov. 9 (through Boaistuau, 1559,
no. 3).

_Origin._--Luigi da Porto, 1535 (fr. Masuccio, 1476, nov. xxxiii.).

_Parallels._--Belleforest, t. i.; _otto novelle rarissime_;
A. Brooke, 1562; Lopez de Vega, _Los Castelveses y Monteses;_ F. de
Roscas, _Los Vandos de Verona_; L. Groto, _Hadriana_, 1578.

_Painter._--I. ii. 118; II. ii. 179; III. ii. 348; IV. iii. 80.

_Derivates._--Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_ is partly founded on
Painter, partly on Brooke’s poem. The English comedians played it in
Germany. Sloane MS., 1775, contains a Latin play on this subject.]