182 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE . 
MUSSEL. 
Prospero. Sea-water shalt thou drink, thy food shall 
be 
The fresh-brook mussels, 
The Tempest, Act i. Scene 2. 
Simple . Pray you, sir, wash not the wise woman of 
Brentford ? 
Falstaff. Ay, marry, was it, mussel-shell: 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iv. Scene 5. 
COCKLE. 
Petmcio . Why, ’tis a cockle, or a walnut-shell, 
Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Gower. Thus time we waste, and longest leagues 
make short, 
Sail seas in cockles, have, an wish but for’t; 
Pericles, Act iv. Gower. 
BARNACLE. 
Caliban. ... we shall lose our time, 
And all be turn’d to barnacles, or to apes 
With foreheads villanous low. 
The Tempest, Act iv. Scene 1. 
WHALE. 
Biron. To show his teeth as white as whale’s bone : 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v. Scene 2. 
