("_Bell-wrapping-dance song_."--_Province of Iga--Naga district_)
A Yamabushi of Kyoto went to Kumano. There resting in the inn
Chojaya, by the beach of Shirotaka, he saw a little girl three
years old; and he petted and hugged her, playfully promising to
make her his wife,--
(Chorus) _Playfully promising._
Thereafter that Yamabushi travelled in various provinces;
returning only when that girl was thirteen years old. "O my
princess, my princess!" he cried to her,--"my little princess,
pledged to me by promise!"--"O Sir Yamabushi," made she
answer,--"good Sir Yamabushi, take me with you now!--
"_Take me with you now!_"
"O soon," he said, "I shall come again; soon I shall come again:
then, when I come again, I shall take you with me,--
"_Take you with me._"
Therewith the Yamabushi, escaping from her, quickly, quickly
fled away;--with all haste he fled away. Having passed through
Tanabe and passed through Minabe, he fled on over the Komatsu
moor,--
_Over the Komatsu moor._