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Title page Contents Preface Note on Orthography Introduction On the Translation of Aztec Poetry Guide to the Vocabulary Guide to the Transcription Folio I Folio 2 Folio 3 Folio 4 Folio 5 Folio 6 Folio 7 Folio 8 Folio 9 Folio 10 Folio 11 Folio 12 Folio 13 Folio 14 Folio 15 Folio 16 Folio 17 Folio 18 Folio 19 Folio 20 Folio 21 Folio 22 Folio 23 Folio 24 Folio 25 Folio 26 Folio 27 Folio 28 Folio 29 Folio 30 Folio 31 Folio 32 [Folio 33] Folio 34 Folio 35 Folio 36 Folio 37 Folio 38 Folio 39 Folio 40 Folio 41 Folio 42 Commentary Concordance to Proper Nouns Verbs, Particles, and Common Nouns Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography

[folio 11] 11 +	F11
[1]le haya o ooo yayye a ooo aya o aya o ay
2 ¶ yzcohuatzin i tenoxtitlani ahuayya [3] yyamo aye neçahualcoyoltli hui[4]ya ma yzquixochitli ma cacahua[5]xochitli ximilacaçoca ximomali[6]nacãn ãtepilhuan i huexotzinco [7] y xayacamachan i temayahui[8]tzin yn ohaya oaya o ay	2 O Itzcoatzin of Tenochtitlan, O Nezahualcoyotl. Let there be popcorn flowers, cacao flowers. Spin! Whirl,97 you princes of Huexotzinco, Xayacamach and Temaxahuitzin.
11	XI 98
tototi tototi	[two-tone drum cadence:] tototi tototi
11 ¶ teoxihuizhuayo y monacayo mo[12]yolo yehuã / chichimecatlo viy[13]a yehua teni · chalchihuitl y / mo[14]yolo yehua ye yzquixochitli ca[15]cahuaxochitli - ahua y yao ayya [16] yye ma tahuiyacana ohuaya o[17]huaya ·	11 May your flesh, your hearts be leafy green,99 O Chichimec,100 O Tenitl!101 These are jades, these are popcorn flowers, cacao flowers, your hearts. And let's be pleasured.
18 ¶ nicmalitihuiz xochicuahuitlo [19] huehuezcani xochitl a y tamo[20]huȃchã / xochipetlapana ayya[1]	18 "I come as a flower tree from Tamoanchan, the flower seat, come whirling these, these laughing ones, these flowers, burgeoned flowers, song-root flowers."102 From within these plumes you sing, O Arbiter.103 You're whirled! And let's be pleasured.
[folio 11v] 11	F11v
[1]hue / mimilihuic xochitla yeehua[2]ya a nelhuayoxochitli q  ̑ tzalytec[3]pa tocuica titlaylotlaqui tomalin[4]tica y ahua yya oh ayya yye ma ta[5]huiyacana ahuayo ohuaya
6 ¶ nin■yecoya a / tamohuãnicha[7]ni · nepapã xochitli / coçȃhuic [8] xochitli - timaliticac yn tohuehue[9]uh · yn tayacach aya - çãniyo ni[10]caa-n aya titocnihuan i ovaya [11] obaya	6 "I am created in Tamoanchan."104 As a multitude of flowers, golden flowers, you're whirled. Our drums, our rattles! Here [on earth and here] alone! O friends!
12 ¶ y çȃ tictlanehuico - y tlalticpacqui [13] çee / tiyahui / cano ximohua yehuã - [14] ma nonocuiltono ma yc ninapȃ[15]naya o xochitli çȃniyo nicaa[16]n aya titochihuani ohuaya ohua[17]ya	12 We merely come to borrow them on earth, we merely go away where all are shorn.105 Let me be rich, let me dress myself in these. These flowers!106 Here [on earth and here] alone! O friends!
18 ¶ xochitl ycpac ye nicã xochique[19]çãli q  ̑ chol maahuiliya mahui[1]	18 Upon these flowers here a flower plume, a swan, is pleasuring, is pleasuring where flowers stand.