Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon; 635

And yet more med'cinal is it than that Moly

That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave.

He called it Hæmony, and gave it me,

And bade me keep it as of sovereign use

'Gainst all enchantments, mildew blast or damp, 640

Or ghastly Furies' apparitiön.

I pursed it up, but little reckoning made,

Till now that this extremity compelled.

But now I find it true; for by this means