Indian Emperour, or, The conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Dedication

en \ which.is an..approach fo. nigh th tarts whigy - Deity, | bOtl)' to gfl' SOty i itho Fyary S 5 dtca)ing, the dfir ) Mldam " !' med by i 1 Ordee by 0ut ‘yo i Yatin of yo w. A i d nd l wo Cract' 4 oo y kond lude thet b ol -i fl o lpy%!l(' g," o frw () i)' rflffi/[ that Humane Nature is ;zot"éapalole of negrer. Ti my {fHappineff that I can testifie this Vertue o Yoty Grace's b iy oen experionge;s) fince. I bave.fo' grear an:averfion from JolAicitin Court-E.avaurs, < that. I am rveady to look on thofe s er bold, Who dare grow rich there. without defert. | Bu 1beg you Grace's pardon for affuming this Vertue of. Modefty to m felf which the Sequel of this Difcourfe will no may juftifie. For.i ' this Ada'refi I have already quitted the Charatter o a modef Man , by prefenting you this Poem as an acknowledgment - Which ftands in need of your protection ;5 rand awhich ough n more to be efteen'd a Prefent, than it is accounted Bounty in th Poor, when they beftow a Child on Jome wealthy Friend, wh will better breed it up Off=Springs of this Nuture are like t be fo numerous with me, that 1 muft be forcd to fend fome o them abroad ; only thiiss like to be more fortunate than his Brothers, becaufe T have landed bim on an hofpitable Shore. Un der your Patronage Montezuma hopes be is more [afe tha m his Native Indses : and therefore comes to throw bimfelf a Jour Grace's Feet 5 paying that bomage to your Beauty,, whic be refus'd. to the violence of hbis C onquerors He begs only tha "when be (hall relate bis S ufferings, you will confider him as a Indian Prince, and not expect any other Eloquence from bi Jimplicity, than what bis griefs bave furnifl'd bim withal Hi Story is, perbaps, the greateft Which was ever reprc]en{cd n Poem of this nature 5 (the Action of it including t/zef Difcover and' Conguef‘'tof & New World.) In it T have neztbe'r Wwholl follow'd the Truth of the Hiftory, nor altogether left it : bu have taken all the Liberty of aPoet, to-add, alter; or diminifp as 1 thought might beft conduce to the beantifying of my Worl}