On 27 June 2014 12:24, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:

> "I can call forth spirits from the vasty deep!"
>
> "Why, so can I, and so can any man; but do they come when you do call them?"
>
> (Shakespeare, I'm not sure which play offhand, or who said it ... or if I
> quoted it accurately ... but I'm sure you get the point).

It was Hotspur, in response to Glendower's boasting (Henry IV Part 1).
I must say I've always considered it a very apposite riposte!

David

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