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Show - Connexion of the Indian Emperour t the Indias Queen Ty | $fiMq i fl\ercy HE Conclufion of the Indian. Lueen,(part by me) left little matter for another S e _maining but two of the confiderable Characters a tezuma and Orazia : thereupon the Author o this, t T!S omneilles, g produce new perfons from the old ones 3. an Queen, before fhe lov'd Monteznma, 1iv'd in cl ndeftine Marriage with he General Traxallas from thofe two, he has rais d a Son and two Daughters fuppoled tobe left young Orphansat their Death : n the other fide, he has given to Montezuma and Orazia,two Sons and a Daug to be grown up to Mens and Womens Eftate; a d their Mother Orazsg (for whom there was no further ufe in the ftory) lately dea Sothat you are to imagine about ‘Twenty years elap tion of Montezuma; who, in the Truth of the Hiftory, was a gre rious Prince ; and in whofe time happened the Difcover Mezxico by the Spaniards ; under the conduct of Hernand ing with the Tlaxcallan-Indsans the'inveterate Enemies of M Iy fubverted that flourifhing Empire; ‘the Conqueft of which, i je€t of this Dramatigue Poem h ore Flame ;}"fi" o oft} htegrity. thafy ‘ I have neither wholly followed the ftory,nor varied fromiit ; nd, asnear: {t Obedicat bliged Se asl could, -have traced the Native fimplicity and iguorance of th /ndians In relation to Ewropean Cuftomes : The Shipping; Armour, Horfe ,Swords and Guns of the Spaniards; being asnew.to them, as their Habit and thei Language were to the Chriftians The différence of their Religion from ours, I have taken from the Stor it felf ; and that which you find of itin the firft and §fth Ads touching the fufferings and conftancy of Aontezuma in his O inions, I-have onl illuftrated, not alter'd from thofe who have written of it The Names of the Perfons Reprefented. Montezuma, Emperour of Mexico Indians, Men Women jobfl D Spaniatds Odmar, his Eldeft Son Gnuyomar, his Younger Son rbellan, Son to the late Indian Queen by Traxala High Prieft of the Sun Cydaria, Montezuma's Daughter {z%" 2"'}Sifters s and Daughters to the late Zndian Queen ech Cortez., the Spanifh General %V ‘{fqmz:}commandem under-hinte . gu Pizarro, The Scene 24E X1 C 0 and two Leagues abous it Pro- |