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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 19] 19 +	F19
[1] tinetzahualcoyotzinn ahuayyahu [2] yya yye - ahuȃyya yya ohuaya o[3]huaya
4 ¶ III yca xonahuiyacȃa yhuiti xochitli · [5] tomac maniya ma oteyaquilo to[6]xochicozqui yn toquipȃcoxochiuh [7] tla çȇlia xochitli · cuepunia xochi[8]tli · onca nemi tototl chachalaca [9] tlatohuȃ ha huyohualo quima[10]nan dios [superscript:] teotl [line script:] ychan an ohuaya ohua[11]ya ·	4 With these be pleasured. These intoxicating flowers lie in our hands. Let everyone wear these flower necklaces, these flower crowns of ours.P2-32 Let flowers sprout, let flowers open. Chattering, singing, the birds are alive beyond. These jingles. God spreads them out in his home.P2-33
12 ¶ IV çȃniyo yn toxochhui y-ca tonaa[13]huiya - çȃniyo y cuicatl aya · yca o[14]pupulihui - yn amotlaocol iya - [15] tepilhuani · ya yehuȃ amelel [16] oquiçȃ ohuaya ohuaya	12 Only with flowers are we pleasured. Only with songs is your sadness destroyed, O princes: you're entertained.
17 ¶ V quiyocoya ya · yn ipalnemohua ye[1]	17 Life Giver creates them. He, Self Maker, brings them down. And with these pleasure flowers you're entertained.
[folio 19v] 19	F19v
[1]huȃ · quiyahualtemohuiya mo[2]yocoyaçin y y-n a yahahuiloxo[3]chitli - y yca yehua hamelel oqui[4]çȃ ohuaya ohuaya
5 ¶ VI titoquimilohua o · titecuiltono[6]huȃ · xoochitica cuicatica ya ye[7]huȃya · xopan i xochitli yca tita[8]pãna ha y tlalticpac ye nicani [9] oo ha yahui yya ohayahui ooha[10]yya ohuaya ohuaya	5 We adorn ourselves, enrich ourselves with flowers,P2-34 with songs. With flowers from Green Places we adorn ourselves on earth.
11 ¶ VII q  ̑ n oc cȃ tlamatiya noyolo yehuȃ [12] nicaqui ya cuicatli · niquita y xo[13]chitli · maca y cuetlahuiya ooo/ha [14] y tlaticpac oohayahui yya ohaya[15]hui oohayya ohuaya ohuaya	11 How glad my heart is!P2-35 I hear songs, I see flowers. I wish they wouldn't wither on earth.
4       a lo divino gentilico	[XVIII] [Part 2, Song 4] P2-36
17 ¶ VIII çȃ toteycneliya ■ / aca çȃ tlahucoya / [18] ynpalnemohuȃni / yn cuix nelli [1]	17 Are You obliging? Is Life Giver in a mournful moodP2-37? Yes or no? What does he say? Let our hearts keep sorrowing.P2-38