136

Buscaba el bosque Francisco,
un vasco bizco, muy brusco,
y al verlo le dijo un chusco,
 ¿busca el bosque, vasco bizco?

Francisco, a cross-eyed very brusque
Basque, was searching for the forest. And
an ill-mannered (person) who saw him,
asked: Are you searching for the forest,
cross-eyed Basque?

137

Tres tristes tigres, tragaban trigo en
un trigal en tres tristes trastos.
En tres tristes trastos tragaban trigo
tres tristes tigres.

Three sad tigers swallowed wheat in a
wheat field from three sad bowls. In three
sad bowls, three sad tigers swallowed
wheat.

138

Han dicho que he dicho un dicho,
tal dicho no lo he dicho yo.
Porque si yo hubiera dicho el dicho,
bien dicho habría estado el dicho
por haberlo dicho yo.

They have said that I have said a saying,
such a saying I have not said. Because, if
I would have said the saying well said that
saying would have been, for having been
said by me.