PIQUI CHAQUI.
Should you not give me some present
If you want me to talk to you.
RUMI-ÑAUI.
With a stick will I give thee blows,
With a rope I will hang thee.
PIQUI CHAQUI.
O, do not frighten me!
RUMI-ÑAUI.
Speak then.
PIQUI CHAQUI.
Ollantay. Is it Ollantay?
I can remember no more.
RUMI-ÑAUI.
Piqui Chaqui! Take care!
PIQUI CHAQUI.
But you will not listen!
I am turning blind,
My ears are getting deaf,
My grandmother is dead,
My mother is left alone.
RUMI-ÑAUI.
Where is Ollantay? Tell me.
PIQUI CHAQUI.
I am in want of bread,
And the Paccays[55] are not ripe.
I have a long journey to-day—
The desert is very far off.
RUMI-ÑAUI.
If you continue to vex me
I will take your life.