Ollantay

Do you ask me?

If you will give me that shirt, I will tell you.

RUMI-ÑAHUI

I will give you a hick stick,

And shut you in the pillory.

PIQUI-CHAQUI

O, don’t frighten me so.

RUMI-ÑAHUI

Then speak quickly.

PIQUI-CHAQUI

But you will oot listen.

I am turning blind;

My ears are getting deaf;

My grandmother is dead;

And my mother is alone.

RUMI-ÑAHUI

Where is Ollantay? tell me!

PIQUI-CHAQUI

My father is away from home,

And the paccay are not ripe:

I have a long walk to go today.

RUMI-ÑAHUI

If you vex me again,

I will cudgel your life out of you.

PIQUI-CHAQUI

Ollantay? O, he is at work.