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Rh Filled with compassion for my men, I thus, with sore and heavy heart, Have spoken to the cruel king: 'The Anti-suyu must have rest; All her best men shan't die for thee, By battle, fire, and disease— They die in numbers terrible. How many men have ne'er returned, How many chiefs have met their death For enterprises far away?' For this I left the Inca's court, Saying that we must rest in peace; Let none of us forsake our hearths, And if the Inca still persists, Proclaim with him a mortal feud.


 * (Enter , several chiefs, and a great crowd of soldiers and people.)

Long live our king, Ollantay! Bring forth the standard and the fringe, Invest him with the crimson fringe; In Tampu now the Inca reigns, He rises like the star of day.


 * (The chiefs, soldiers, and people range themselves round. Ollantay is seated on the tiana by Hanco Huayllu, an aged Auqui or Prince.)

Receive from me the royal fringe, 'Tis given by the people's will. Rh