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cntly an Orator made an eloquent fpeech , exhorting 

 him tp arme himfelfe with courage,and free them from 

 the travells,flavery and mifery they fuffered^being op- 

 prefled by the Afyptifylcos : which done, all did him 

 homage. This king was not married, and his Counlell 

 helde opinion, that it was good to marry him with the 

 daughter of the king ofAzupttzakojo have him a frind 

 by this aliance,and to obtain fome diminution of their 

 heavy burthen of tributes impofedvpon them, and 

 yet they feared left he fhould difdaine to give them his 

 daughterly reafon they were his vaffalls : yet theking 

 ofAtypufylee yeelded therevnto, having humbly re 

 quired him, who with curteous wordes gave them his 

 daughter, 'called 'Ajatchigual , whom they ledde with 

 great pompc and ioy 'to-Mexico, and performed the ce 

 remony and folemnity of marriage, which was to tie a 

 corner of the mans cloke to a part of the womans vaile 

 in figne of the band of marriage . This Queene broght 

 foorth afbnne, of whofe name they dcmaunded ad- 

 vife of the king ofA^capufyko, and cafting lots as they 

 had accuftomed (being greatly given to foothfayings, 

 efpccially vpon the names of their children) he would 

 have his grand- childe called Chimalfopoca , which fig- 

 nifies a target catting fmoke.The Queene his daughter 

 feeing the contentment the King of A^cdfufykol&A 

 of his grand, child, tooke occafion to intreat him to re- 

 leeve the Mexicaines of the heavy burthen of their 

 tributes , feeing he had nowa grand-child Mexicaine, 

 the which the King willingly yeelded vnto, by the 

 advife of his Counfell, granting(for the tribute which 

 they paid,) to bring ycerelya couple of duckcs and 

 fbinefifli, in figne offubiedion , and that they dwelt 

 in his land. The Mexicaines by this meanes, remained 



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