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EPIGRAM: 10 by THOMAS WYATT

Poet Analysis

First Line: VULCAN BEGAT ME. MINERVA ME TAUGHT
Last Line: AND IF I BE THINE ENEMY I MAY THY LIFE END.
Subject(s): GUNS; RIDDLES;
Vulcan begat me; Minerva me taught;
Nature, my mother; craft nourished me year by year;
Three bodies are my food, my strength is in naught;
Anger, wrath, waste, and noise, are my children dear.
Guess, friend, what I am and how I am wrought;
Monster of sea or of land or of elsewhere?
Know me and use me and I may thee defend,
And if I be thine enemy I may thy life end.



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