Note 542 — Chapter CXIX
Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham translation
“Pues Señor Gobernador Mirelo bien por entero Que allá va el Recogedor Y acá queda el Carnicero.”
The above is Mr. Prescott’s version of these famous lines. Mr. Helps translates them thus:—
“My good lord Governor, Have pity on our woes; For here remains the butcher, To Panama the salesman goes.”