Devour’d his children. But on Rhea prey’d
Never-forgotten anguish. When the time
Was full, and Jove, the sire of gods and men,
Came to the birth, her parents she besought,
Earth and starr’d Heaven, that they should counsel yield
How secretly the babe may spring to life:
And how the father’s furies ’gainst his race
In subtlety devour’d may meet revenge:
They to their daughter listen’d and complied:
Unfolding what the Fates had sure decreed