Coordinate term: pink puffer

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).

Removing the shoots on the side of the plant will encourage it to grow upward instead of bushing out.

‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’