Guarded Mount

Lycidas 161. (See also Bayona.) St. Michael’s Mount, a rock in Mount’s Bay, on the coast of Cornwall. Camden writes: “In the very corner is Michael’s Mount (which gives name to the bay). … It is a craggy rock surrounded by the water at high tides; but when the tide is out joined to the main land. On the summit, within the... castle was a chapel dedicated to Michael the archangel, where William, Earl of Cornwall and More ton, founded a cell for a monk or two, who gave out that Michael had appeared on the mount.” Carew, in his Survey of Cornwall, gives (1. 4.) a description of the Mount. See also the references given by Verity in his note on the pa age. The most famous literary... allusion, after Milton’s, is that of Spenser: St. \ Michel’s Mount who does not know, That wardes the westerne coste? {Shepherds’ Calendar, July 41-2.) 148