The Gueguence A Comedy Ballet in the Nahuatl-Spanish Dialect of Nicaragua Part 9

Corriendo y volando? Como quiere que corra y vuela un pobre viejo, lleno de dolores y continuas calamidades?

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_Gue._ What sort of a servant-girl is it, the chocolate maker, the washwoman, or the clothes patcher of the Governor Tastuanes?

_Alg._ Neither waiter-girl nor washwoman; a servant of the Governor Tastuanes.

_Gue._ Then which servant-girl, cook or grub-fixer of the Governor Tastuanes?

_Alg._ Let me disclose myself; I have nothing to do with the grub-fixer; I am the Captain Chief Alguacil of the Governor Tastuanes.

_Gue._ Ha! Captain Chief Alguacil of the Governor Tastuanes! O friend Captain Chief Alguacil of the Governor Tastuanes, your official staff is perhaps at your quarters?

_Alg._ Perhaps I may offer you one, Gueguence.

_Gue._ Take a seat, friend Captain Chief Alguacil.

_Alg._ Take a seat, Gueguence.

_Gue._ Friend Captain Chief Alguacil, and what has Governor Tastuanes to say?

_Alg._ That you go to him a-running and a-flying, Gueguence.

_Gue._ A-running and a-flying? How does he expect a poor old man, full of pains and aches, to run and

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Amigo Cap^n Alg^l M^{or} y un silguero que esta en la portada del Sor. Gob^{or} Tastuanes, que es lo que hace?

_Alguacil._

Cantando y alegrando a los Senores grandes.

_Gueguence._

Ese es mi consuelo y mi divertimiento. Amigo Cap^n Alg^l M^{or} con que corriendo y volando?

_Alguacil._

Corriendo y volando, Gueguence.

_Gueguence._

Ha, muchachos! me hablan?

_D. Ambrosio._

Quien te ha de hablar, Gueguence embustero?

_Gueguence._

Me hablas, Don Forcico?

_D. Forcico._

No, tat.i.ta, seran los oidos que le chillan.

_Gueguence._

Ese sera, muchachos. Pues ten cuenta con la bodega, que voi a ver si puedo volar.

_Alguacil._

Ha, Gueguence, con que modo y con que cortecilla te calas, qui provincia real del Sor. Gob^{or} Tastuanes?

_Gueguence._

Pues, y como, amigo Cap^n Alg^l M^{or}?

_Alguacil._

Primero ha de ser un velancico, y paltechua consolar el Cabildo Real del Sor. Gob^{or} Tastuanes.

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fly? Friend Captain Chief Alguacil, and a linnet that reaches the door of Governor Tastuanes, what does it do there?

_Alg._ It sings and amuses the grandees there.

_Gue._ That is my consolation and delight. Friend Captain Chief Alguacil, how about this running and flying?

_Alg._ A-running and a-flying, Gueguence.

_Gue._ Ho, boys! do you speak to me?

_Don. Am._ Who wants to speak to you, Gueguence, old humbug?

_Gue._ Do you speak to me, Don Forcico?

_Don For._ No, little papa, perhaps it's your ears that are buzzing.

_Gue._ That may be, boys. Well, then, look after the shop, and I will go and see if I can fly.

_Alg._ Ho, Gueguence! in what style, and with what etiquette, are you going to enter the royal presence of the Governor Tastuanes?

_Gue._ Well, now, how should I, friend Captain Chief Alguacil?

_Alg._ First, there should be a song, and such like, to amuse the Royal Court of the Governor Tastuanes.