WAR WITH CTYOACAN. 483 



CHAP. xiv. Of tJte ivarre and victory the Me&amp;lt;eicaincs Itad 

 against the Cittic of Cuyoacan. 



Although the chiefe cittio of the Tepanecas was that of LlB - * &quot; 

 Azcapuzalco, yet had they others with their private Lordes, 

 as Tucuba and Cuyoacan. These seeing the storme passed, 

 would gladly that they of Azcapuzalco had renewed the 

 warre against the Mexicans, and seeing them danted, as a 

 nation wholy broken and defeated, they of Cuyoacan re 

 solved to make warro by themselves ; to the which they 

 laboured to draw the other neighbor nations, who would not 

 stir nor quarrell with the Mexicans. In the meano time the 

 hatred and malice increasing, they of Cuyoacan beganno to 

 ill intreate the women that went to their markets, mocking 

 at them, and doing the like to the men over whom they had 

 power : for which cause the king of Mexico defended, 1 that 

 none of his should goo to Cuyoacan, and that they should 

 receive none of them into Mexico, the which made them of 

 Cuyoacan resolve wholy to warre : but first they would pro 

 voke them by some shameful 1 scornc, which was, that having 

 invited them to one of their solemn feasts, after they had 

 made them a goodly banquet, and feasted them with a great 

 daunce after their manner, they sent them, for their fruite, 

 womens apparcll, forcing them to put it on, and so to re- 

 tnrne home like women to their cittie, reproching them, 

 that they were cowards and effeminate, and that they durst 

 not take armes, being sufficiently provoked. Those of 

 Mexico say, that for revenge they did vnto them a fowlo 

 scorne, laying at the gates of their cittie of Cuyoacan cer- 

 taine things which smoaked, 2 by meanes whereof many 

 women were delivered before their time, and many fell 

 sicke. In the end, all came to open warre, and there was a 

 battell fought, wherein they imploycd all their forces, in 



