This cannot anger him

This cannot anger him, t'would anger him
To raise a spirit in his Mistresse circle,
Of some strange nature, letting it stand
Till she had laid it, and coniured it downe,
That were some spight.
My inuocation is faire and honest, & in his Mistris name,
I coniure onely but to raise vp him

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English poet and intellectual, author of "Paradise Lost," considered the greatest epic poem in the English language.

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