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Show ., .. ', ' H I S T 0 R y 0 F M E X I C 0. . fi . d werful a lord ; and we req uefi ,, have in ferving fo tllLl nous an po l f: 1 a d to proteCt us " ou to re ard us with the eyes of a rea at ler, n y . g . ht that we may refi: fccure under your {hade. You II With yoml·lmltg 't hich retl:ores, as· the fire which deftroys, and " are as we t 1C wa er w . , h " . . h ds hold equally our 1tfe and our cleat . . " m yom an . k 1 ave the king remained in Tenayuca, wtth The lords havmg ta en e ' . 1 . fifi the widow of the prince Chiconquauhth. He was t len, as his t er . .n. • about fixty years of age, and had fons and far as we can con Je<.:.Ltll e, Tl . ' dt: I'_]'' 1 wful children by the Tol'tecan queen were 9tzm,. gran 1ons. ~ 15 a 1 h fi ft born 1 'h d Apopozoc. On Tlotzin, w 10 was t e r • Q£au 1teqm ua, an h h · ht begin tO< 1 conferred the government of Tezcuco, t at e mig d l1C the difficult art of governing men; and the other two were place earn . . ( ) over the ftates of Zacatlan and Tenamltlc r . . The king p~fied one year in the court of Tenayuca, arrangmg the cr · f the ftate which were. not [o fettled as they had. been at fidl:. awurs o ' · h 1 · [c b t the From thence he went to Tezcuco, to treat Wlt 1lS on a ou . . moft convenient meafures to· be taken to reftore the fonw:r tranqmlhty of his kingdom. While he was there he went one day mto the royal ardens with his fon, and fame other lords of the court, and· as t~1ey g · converfation he budl: fuddenly into a flood of te;J.rs ; bemg were In ' r. " r. 'd I It reduce 11. d to explain the caufe " Two cau1es, 1a1 1e,. P reque1LC ' h' h · · d u my tears, the one the memory of my late father, w 1c 1~ rev1vc " by the fight of this place where he ufed to take recreat101: ; th~ " other is the comparifon which I make of thefe happy days. wlth the " prefent bitter moments. When my father planted thefe gard~n s, "he had quiet fubjeCl:s, who ferved him with fince.rity, and_ ~ece1ved " the oHices which he conferred upon them, w1th humihty and .. rrratitude. but at prefent ambition. and difcord are every where prc-" ov ailing. ' It troubles me tE> be obliged to ufe ~he fu b~' e Cl s as ene- " mies, whom I once in this place treated as fnends and brothers. " Do you, my fon," addreffing Tlotzin, " keep confiantly m your ( r) If we are to adopt the chronology of Tot·quemndn, we muft give Nopal~zin -:vhcn h~ mounted tl1e throne one hunctrcd and thirty years of age; as when he arrived With Ius fath ci in the country of Annhm1c, he was at leaH eighteen or twenty years, whi ch added to the one 11undrcd and thirteen years, which, according to Torquemada, Xolotl reigned in th at country, n;nke one hnnth:cd and thirty·011e, or one hundred and thirty-th ree. On this fcc our Seconu Diffcrtation. " eyes ' ' H I S T 0 R Y 0 F M E X I C 0. I ...' u eyes the image of your grandfather, and fl:rive to imitate the exam" pies of prudence and jufiice which he left us. Strengthen your " heart with every virtue which you will have occa{ion for, to 'govern "your fubjcds." After condoling fome time with his fon, the king departed for his court of Tenayuca. The prince Acolhuatzin, who was il:ill living, thinking the boun-· daries of his ftate of Azcapozalco too narrow, refolved to take polfeffion of Tepotzotlan, and in faCt took it by force, in fpite of the refiftance made by Chalchi uhcua, lord of that il:ate. It is to be believed, that Acolhuatzin would not have done fo violent an aCt without the exprefs confent of the king, who was, probably, willing to revenge himfelf in that manner of fome offence he had received fi·om Chalchiuhcua. The contefl: was a· good deal more .bloody which arofe a little after from interefis of a very different q.ature. Huetzin, lord of Coatlichan, fon of the late prince Tzont~comatl (s), . was defirous of marrying Atotoztli,' a noble arid beautiful vit·gin, and grand-daughter of the queen. Jacazozolot], lord of Tepetlaoztoc, made fimilar pretenfions; but either being more fl:rongly enamoured, or more violent in t~mper, not conten.t with having demanded her of her father, , he was willing to render hi.mfelf mafter of his beauty by arms ; and for this purpofe collected a fmall army of his fubjetl:s; which was joined by TochintcuCl: li, who had been lord of ~ahuacan, but was difpolfefied on account of his mifdceds, and bani{hed to Tepetlaoztoc. Huetzin, apprized of this intent, went to meet him with a greater number of troops, and gave him battle in the neighbourhood of Tezcuco, in. which fome of Jacazotolotl's people were ilain along with himfelf, and the reH of the army routed. Tochinteuctli f.wed himfelf by flight, fheltering himfelf in the city of Huexotzinco, on the <Dther fide of the mountains. Huetzin, having got rid of· his rival, with the con- (s) Torquemnda makes IIuctzrri:, fon of Itzmitl, ant! him fon of Tzontccomatl in the thir. tee nth chapter of book the firfi; but in chlptct· 40, he f:tys, that Itzmitl was one 'Of thofc who came with :1colotl from Amaqucmicnn, fo that he makeS: him born before his fr1ther Tzontecomatl, as he was a young man only when he came to Anahuac; and he did not come before the 47th ycnr of the reign of Xolotl, as the foune author afllrms. Befitles in one place, he makes Itzmitl a pmc Chic hemccan; ~nd in nnothct· place the fon of an Acolhuan, But who is •t:Wblc of marking all the tOlltl'adi tions Md nnnchroni[m$ of Torquemada r 0 .2 fent • 9CJ BOOK H. ~ ) |