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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 18] 18 +	F18
[1]cacahuatl i tacȃyyexuchuh · tlal[2]ticpac tlamati toyolo yehuayȃ - [3] ma xomocuicatica - q  ̑ conequiz i[4]yolo yehuã - y  ̑ paltiyanemi y tlal[5]ticpac ohuaya ohuaya
6 ¶ ha y  ̑ huan i totlaneuh / chimali a [7] xochitli · yn tlachinolxochitli · me [8] ya y moxochihui / ma xomocui[9]catia · titlatqui tecuitli · çȃ yehua [10] tlalçin huiya · ycnopiloticȃ · qui[11]malina xochitli · ayocuatzin[12]n i tecuitli yehuȃ/n amechoonal[13]huiltiya o · ynqui nochan ipaltiyanemi y tlalticpac ohuayo o[14]huaya	6 And ah! our borrowed ones are shield flowers, blaze flowers. Now let these flowers be yours!P2-25 Make music, O chief, O lord - it's Tlaltzin! Grievingly Lord Ayocuantzin twirls flowers. And he pleasures you [here]. As if in your home,P2-26 O Life Giver. [Yet] it's [here], on earth.
15 ¶ au ya y aneli nemohua yehuȃya / o[16]puliz xochitli tla yehuȃ y / tomac [17] omaniya no yhui titocnihuȃa [1]	15 But it isn't true that one lives. These flowers are to be destroyed.P2-27 I wish they would lie in our hands. That way we're each other's comrades: we're destroyed on earth.P2-28
[folio 18v] 18	F18v
[1] ■ tiyapupuliuh yn tlalticpac/qui ya [2] oohuiya
3 ¶ mee moxochiuh · yz cȃ yn tocuic · y [4] titepiltzin tenȏcelotl ycan ti[5]mapamna q  ̑ çȃloxochitlo - hui[6]molihui ya mocpacxochiuh ti[7]yazque ■ cano ye ychan an ohua[8]ya ohuaya -	3 Let's have your flowers!P2-29 Here they are! Our songs! You adorn yourself with plume flowers, Prince Tenocelotl. Your flower crowns are stirring, and we are off to His home.
3      de Neçahualcoyotzin	[XVII] [Part 2, Song 3] P2-30
10 ¶ I xochipetlatipȃni · tocoyay  ̑ cui[11]lohuȃ y mocuiqu i motlatol I no[12]pilçin oo - tinetzahualcoyotzin-[13]n ahuȃyyahui yya yye ahuayya [14] yya ohuaya ohuaya	10 On this flower mat you paint your songs, your words, my prince, you, Nezahualcoyotzin.
15 ¶ II a ycuiliuh moyolo tlapȃpalxo[16]chitlo yca tiquicuilohuȃ yn mo[17]cuicqu i motlatol nopilçin oo [1]	15 Ah, your heart is painted.P2-31 As multicolored flowers you paint your songs, your words, my prince, you, Nezahualcoyotzin.