Michele Scoto fu, che veramente
Delle magiche frode seppe il gioco."
Another poet of Italy, but of infinitely inferior note, Theophilo Folengi, who published a collection of Latin Macaronic verses, under the fictitious name of Merlinus Coccaius, has given, in strange and almost unintelligible language, a singular picture of his incantations.
"Behold renown'd Scotus take his stand
Beneath a tree's deep shadow, and there draw
His magic circle—in its orb describe
Signs, cycles, characters of uncouth shapes;
And with imperious voice his demons call.
Four devils come—one from the golden west,
Another from the east; another still