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. |