Note 7 — SHAKSPEARE PAPERS.—No. III.

Rosaline was niece of Capulet. The list of persons invited to the ball is

"Signior Martino, and his wife and daughters;

County Anselm[o], and his beauteous sisters;

The lady widow of Vetruvio;

Signior Placentio, and his lovely nieces;

Mercutio, and his brother Valentine;

Mine uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters;

My fair niece Rosaline; [and] Livia;

Signior Valentio, and his cousin Tybalt;

Lucio, and the lively Helena."

I have altered Anselme to the Italian form Anselmo, and in the seventh line inserted and. I think I may fairly claim this list as being in verse. It is always printed as prose.