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mended his wife and children vnto them, ho loft all his LllJ 

 people sorrowfull for his death. 



CHAP. x. Of the sniiond Kuuj, and what happened i 



The obsequies of the dead king performed, the Antients, 

 the ehiefe of the reahne, and some part of the people assem 

 bled together to choose a King, where the Antients pro 

 pounded the necessitie wherein they were, and that it was 

 needefull to choose for ehiefe of their citty, a man that had 

 pity of age, of widows, and orphans, and to be a father of 

 the connnonweale : for in very deede they should be the 

 leathers of his wings, the eie-browes of his eyes, and the 

 beard of his face, that it was necessarie he were valiant, 

 being needefull shortly to vse their forces, as their god had 

 prophesied. Their resolution in the end was to chuse a 

 sonne of the predecessor, vsing the like good oflice in ac 

 cepting his sonne for successor, as heo had done to the 

 connnonweale, relying thereon. This young man was called 

 Vitzilovitli, which signilieth a rich leather; they set the 

 royall crowne vpon his head, and aunointed him, as they 

 have becne accustomed to doo to all their Kings, with an 

 ointment they call Divine, being the same vnction where 

 with they did annoynt their Idoll. Presently an Orator 

 made an eloquent speech, exhorting him to anno himselfe 

 with courage, and free them from the travells, slavery, and 

 misery they suffered, being oppressed by the Azcapuzalcos : 

 which done, all did him homage. This king was not married, 

 and his Counsell helde opinion, that it was good to marry 

 him with the daughter of the king of Azcapuzalco, to have 

 him a friend by this alliance, and to obtain some diminution 

 of their heavy burthen of tributes imposed vpon them, and 

 yet they feared lest he should disduine to give them his 



