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...