Vasiliscul şi aspida [English translation]

Please, I tempt you,

Worthy fabulist:

Tell me something about an Aspid

And a Vasilisc.

The heart is broken,

The soul is killed,

by Aspid fangs,

Vasilisc's eyes.

Snake, snakish

With fish-like scales,

meandring the river

And in the water of the brook,

the shadow of the spine,

Of the serpent, the evil.

Pira, pira, snake, don't die

Pira, pira, snake, don't sting

with a head, two,

with ninety-nine...

Seemed like entering the river

until the brim

it was no snake

neither asp,

nor hydra

if it entered in the water...

It was big Vasilisc

with odalisque body

and a look that starts

a passion that hurts

and makes the man a beast!

Evil eye, come out of the eyes,

Harmful eyes

arching fire

may be covered

with white threads

so they won't watch

white cheeks...