Historic of the Indies lib. 7* 



3 and put it to his face, tbotijbalt 

 im withotttfieltng.Ths poorc laborer durftnot 

 approach nccre him, nor doc as he was commaunded, 

 for thcgrcat fcarc they allhaddcof this king . But the 

 Voycefiide, H we no few y for! amwiibout comfarifin 

 greater than this Ktng, I un defiroj trim, and defend him > 

 doe therefore what / commwnd thee . Where vpon the la 

 borer took the ftaffe of perfumes out of thelangs hand, 

 and put it burning to his nofe 3 but he mooved not,nor 

 (hewed any feeling. 



This done, the voice (aid vnto him , that feeing hec 

 had found theking fo fleepy,he fliould go awakehim, 

 and tell him what he had feene.Thcn the Eagle by the 

 famecomtnandement, tookethe man in his tallents, 

 and fet him in the fame place where he found him, and 

 for accomplifbment of that which it had fpoken , hee 

 came to advertife him. They fay, that Motecuma loo. 

 king on his face/ound that he was burnt, the which he 

 had not felt till then , wherewith he continued excee 

 ding heavy and troubled. It may be, that what thela- 

 borer reported , had happened vnto him by imagina 

 ry vifion : An'd it is not incredible, that God appointed 

 by the mcanes of a good Angell , or fuffered by a bad, 

 that this advertifemcnt fliould be given to the labourer 

 for the kings chafticctnent, although an infidel!, feeing 

 that we rcadc in the holy Scriptures, that infidells and 

 finners have had the like apparations and revelations, 

 teNAbttcadottofor, Balaam* and thePithoniflfeof^^/. 

 Andiffomeofrficfeappai'ations did not fo exprefly 

 happen, yet without doubt>jtf0#p;#<f had many gr^ 

 affli6lions and difcontentments , -by reafon of funclry 

 & divers revelations which he had, that his kingdome 

 and law fliould ibone end. 



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