FISH. 
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Benvolio. Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo. 
Mercutio. Without his roe, like a dried herring:— 
O, flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified ! 
Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Scene 4. 
PILCHARD. 
Clown. . . . fools are as like husbands as 
pilchards are to herrings, 
Twelfth Night, Act iii. Scene 1. 
GURNET. 
Falstaff. If I be not ashamed of my soldiers I am 
a soused gurnet. 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act iv. Scene 2. , 
CONGER. 
Doll. Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang 
yourself! 
Falstaff. . ..... 
. .' eats conger and fennel;. . 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. Scene 4. 
POOR JOHN. 
Gregory. J T is well thou art not fish ; if thou had’st, 
thou had’st been poor John. 
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Scene 1. 
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