Keep it up, Mandrake, he said. Just keep it up. You may be the Prime Minister's blue-eyed boy now, but how long's that going to last if you don't deliver?

Ben[volio]. Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo. / Mer[cutio]. Without his Roe, like a dryed Hering. O fleſh, fleſh, how art thou fiſhified? One possible reading is that Mercutio is teasing Romeo for looking as pale and thin as a dried fish from which the roe has been removed, thinking that Romeo has spent the night engaged in sexual intercourse with Rosaline. Roe may refer to a roe deer or be a diminutive for Rosaline (Romeo is without his dear or without Rosaline), or to soft roe or milt (the sperm of a male fish, suggesting that the sexual activity has drained Romeo of his semen).

I was awakened from a dead sleep by my child pouncing on top of me from out of nowhere.

The weather is clement, though there was a downpour yesterday and I was obliged to take precautions.