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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 14] 14 +	F14
1 ¶ nihualchoca y / nihualycnootla[2]mati çȃ nicuicȃnitl hvia y / a [3] ca anichuicaz i toxochi om oo[4]huaye / ma yc ninapantiaz - ca[5]no ximohuȃya oohuaya / nihual[6]laocoya ohuaya ohuaya	1 I weep here, I grieve, I the singer, for I won't be taking our flowers with me. Would that I might go adorned with these to the place where all are shorn. I am sad.
7 ¶ a ca çãn iuhqui xoochitl aya / y ypȃ [8] momȃti / yn tlalticpacqui - çã quel [9] achic tocontotlaneehuico ahuili [10] xochitli xonaahuiyacȃ oohua[11]ye nihuallaomcoya ohuaya [12] ohuaya	7 They're just like the flowers on earth. Briefly we borrow these pleasure flowers.119 Be entertained! I am sad.
13 ¶ antochan oo / yn tinemi ye nicȃ [14] yn tlaticq ' / çȃn ihui çȃn achic / çȃ [15] tictotlanehuiya / oohuaye / ximo[16]quimilocann ȃtepilhuan a - o[17]huaya ohuaya -	13 Where we live here on earth is not our home. Just this: just briefly do we borrow them. Adorn yourselves, princes.
18 ¶ yn çãniyo o ye nicã paqui toyollo - [1]	18 Only here can our hearts be content. Briefly we're friends. We're borrowers. Our eternal home is not this earth. Where are the flowers?120 Adorn yourselves, princes.
[folio 14v] 14	F14v
[1] achi titocnihuã tototlanehuicõ - an[2]çẽ tochan i tlalticpac ȏ o / yn cãni xo[3]ca y / oohuaye ximoquimilocan[4]n antepilhuãn ã / ohuaya ohuaya	XIV 121
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6 ¶ ȏ / ayyacohui / yaom ayahui / nococa[7]co yectiuȃya / cuicȃ y ye ychan i [8] tepilhua y cohuacuechtliya o[9]vaye tzinizcȃn amoxochitica yn [10] teocuitlanepapaniuhtoc / yn[11]cȃ ximapanȃ tlalticpac ahuȃyya [12] o / ahuaya o ayye ohuaya ohua[13]ya	6 Princes, I've been hearing good songs in His home.122 O Coacuech, the trogons are strewn as gold, as flower banners: here on earth adorn yourself with these.123
14 ¶ çȃ ye ȏcan oo maniya xochitli ya [15] cuitli / ychan i yehua - tecuitli [16] ya tlatq  ̑ qui chalchiuhtlatona[17]q  ̑ / çȃ tzinizcãn amaxochiticȃ teo[18]cuitlanepapanniuhtoc y  ̑ ca xima[1]	14 Song flowers lie beyond in His home. O lord, O chief,124 O Chalchiuhtlatonac, the trogons are strewn as gold, as flower banners: on earth adorn yourself with these.