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cbimttcos didde moove them, to their owne mine, as it 

 happens to men of fmall Judgement that have no fore- 

 fight,who not preventing the mifchefe they imagined, 

 fall into it. The StiMmilcos held opinion 5 that the Mex 

 icans, by i:eafon of their vi&ories paft, flieuld attempt 

 to fubdue them, and ccnfulted hecrcon among them- 

 felves.Some among them thought it good to acknow 

 ledge them for fuperiors , and to applaude their good 

 fortune, but the contrary was allowed,and they went 

 out to give them battel: which fi(codt the king of Afpc--* 

 ico vnderftanding,hc fent his General Tla&ellec againft 

 them, with his army: the battcll was fought in the fame 

 field that divides their limitcs, which two armies were 

 equall in men and armes, but very divers in their order 

 and manner of fighting 5 for that fatSitikimilcto char 

 ged all together on a heapc confufcdly, and Tlacaellcc 

 divided his men into fquadrons with a goodly order, 

 fo as he prefently brake his ennemies, forcing them to 

 retire into their citric, into the which they cntred,fol- 

 lowing them to the Temple whither they fled , which 

 theyfiercd, and forcing them to flie vnto themoun- 

 tainesrin the end they brought them to this poynt,that 

 they yeclded with their armes acrofle . The Generall 

 TUcacllce returning in great triumph > the priefls went 

 foorth to receive him, with their mufickeof flutes,and 

 giving incenfe . The chiefe Captaincs vied other cere, 

 monies and (hews of ioy, as they had bin accuftomed 

 to doe , and the king with all the troupe went to the 

 Ternple,to give thanks to their falfegod, for the divell 

 hath al wayes beene very defirous hereof, to challenge 

 to himfelfe the honor which he defcrves not , feeing it 

 is the true God which givethvidories , and rtiaketh 

 themtorulewhomchepleafeth . The day following, 



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