Note 448-59 — Scene I.—Before Prospero’s Cell.
Reading edition
Barnacles here means barnacle-geese, a kind of geese supposed by the superstitious to be produced when certain barnacles or shell-fish fell into the sea water.
Reading edition
Barnacles here means barnacle-geese, a kind of geese supposed by the superstitious to be produced when certain barnacles or shell-fish fell into the sea water.