<em>And that prized herb whose sovereign power</em>
<em>Preserves from dark misfortune's hour.</em>
"And yet more medicinal 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 enchantment, mildew, blast, or damp,
Or ghastly furies' apparition." <em>Comus.</em>
The <em>Moly</em> of Homer, which Dierbach considers to have been the <em>Mandrake</em>, is probably a corruption of the Sanskrit <em>Múla</em> a root.