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you shall see the Nobilitie of Mexico set in order, not one LlB vir - 

 nor two, but many and excellent Princes, sonnes to Aca- 

 mapixtli, our true and lawful! King and Lord. Ileere you 

 may choose at your pleasure, saying, I will this man, and 

 not that. If you have lost a father, heere you may find 

 both father and mother : make account, O Mexicaines, that 

 the Sunne is eclipsed and darkened for a time, and will 

 returne suddenly. If Mexico hath beene darkened by the 

 death of your King, the Sunne will soon shew, in choosing 

 another King. Looke to whom, and vpon whom you shall 

 cast your eyes, and towards whom your heart is inclined, 

 and this is hee whom your god Vitzlipuztli hath chosen/ 

 And continuing a while this discourse, ho ended to the 

 satisfaction of all men. In the end, by the consent of this 

 Counsell, Izcoalt was chosen King, which signifies a snake 

 of rasors, 1 who was sonne to the first King Acamapixtli, by 

 a slave of his : and although he were not legitimate, yet 

 they made choyco of him, for that ho exceeded the rest in 

 behaviour, valour, and magnanimitio of courage. All seemed 

 very well satisfied, and above all, these of Tescuco, for their 

 king was married to a sister of Iscoalt. After the King 

 had beeno crowned and set in his royall seat, another Ora 

 tor stept up, discoursing how the king was bound to his 

 Common-weale, and of the courage he ought to shew in 

 travell, speaking thus : &quot; Behold this day we depend on 

 thee ; it may be thou wilt let fall the burthen that lies vpon 

 thy shoulders, and suffer the old man and woman, the orphan 

 and the widowe to perish. Take pittie of the infants that 

 go creeping in the ayre, who must perish if our enemies sur 

 mount vs ; vnfold then and stretch forth thy cloake, my 

 Lord, to beare these infants vpon thy shoulders, which be 

 the poore and the common people, who live assured under 

 the shadowo of thy wings, and of thy bountie.&quot; Vttering 

 many other words vpon this subiect, the which (as I have 

 1 Culobra tic navajns.&quot; 



