176 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
MACKEREL. 
Falstaff. . . . you may buy land now as 
cheap as stinking mackerel. 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 4. 
HERRING. 
Cams. By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill 
kill him. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act ii. Scene 3. 
Sir Toby. . . . —a plague o’ these pickle 
herrings !— 
Twelfth Night, Act i. Scene 5. 
Falstaff. Go thy ways, old Jack • die 
when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not 
forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten 
herring. 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 4. 
Cade. We John Cade, so termed of our supposed 
father,— 
Dick {aside). Or rather, of stealing a cade of 
herrings. 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iv. Scene 2. 
Thersites . To be . . . a herring 
without a roe, I would not care : 
Troilus and Cressida, Act v. Scene 1. 
