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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 25] 25 +	F25
1 ¶ 9 monecuiltonol moteycnelil hue[2]lo nemohuaya ypalnemohua y · y tlal[3]ticpȃque y timohuihuixohua ya ti[4]moçȇçȇlohua nican i moquinocha[5]a moquinocal a ymacan ȃ ohuaya [6] ohuaya	1 All your riches, your favors are alive, O Life Giver, O Earth Owner. You shake yourself, you scatter yourself here in your humble home, in your humble house.
	[XXII] [Part 2, Song 8]
8 ¶ 10 maquizcuepuni oohuaye y moxo[9]chihu aya chalchimimilihui xo[10]chiyzhuayo y tomac omaniya [11] q  ̑ çȃliyexochitl yeçȇ tonequimi[12]lol hatepilhua huiya yyayya [13] çȃ tictotlanehuiya y tlalticpȃc a [14] ohuaya ohuaya	8 Your flowers blossom as bracelets, swelling as jades, the petals abounding, they lie in our hands. These fragrant plume flowers are our adornment, you princes. Aya! We only borrow them on earth.
15 ¶ 11 ma yzquixochitli ma cacahuaxo[16]chitli neneliuhtimaniya to[17]mac omaniya q  ̑ çȃliyexochi[18]tli yeçȇ tonequimilol ȃtepil[19]hua ahuiya yya ye çȃ tictotlane[1]	15 Let the popcorn flowers, the raven flowers be scattered, and fragrant plume flowers lie in our hands. They are our adornment, you princes. Aya! We only borrow them on earth.
[folio 25v] 25	F25v
[1]huiya y tlalticpȃc a ohuaya ohuaya
2 ¶ 12 çȃ nihuallaocoya çȃ nitiçȃhua[3]çi huiya cano tihui ye ychano ayoc [4] hualnecuepȃlo ayoc hualyloti[5]hua yeehuaya çȇ tihui ocano ti[6]hui ohuaya ohuaya	2 I, Tizahuatzin, am grieving here. Where are we to go? To His home! There can be no coming back, there can be no return. We go away forever. Beyond is where we go.P2-77
7 ¶ 13 ma ytquihuan i ychano xochitli [8] cuicatli ma ye ninapȃtihu i teocui[9]tlacacaloxochitli queçȃlizqui[10]xochitli yn tomac omania ayoc [11] hualylotihua yehuaya çȇ tihui [12] oocano tihui ohuaya ohuaya	7 Let these flowers, these songs be carried from his home. And would that I might go away adorned. Gold raven flowers, plume popcorn flowers lie in our hands. There can be no return. We go away forever. Beyond is where we go.
13 ¶ 14 titotoliniyan in anica tochan tima[14]çȇhualti cano ximohua yehuaya [15] cano ye ycha huiya yoyahue huia[16]hue çȃ achica onetlalcahuilo nica[17]n an ohuaya ohuaya	13 We underlings are miserable, for our home is not here. It's where all are shorn, and that place is His home. Alas, the abandoning comes soon.
18 ¶ 15 çȃ totla■■nehuipȃni y tinemi ye ni[19]caa timacehualti cano ximohua ye[20]huaya cano ye ycha huiya oyahue [1]	18 We underlings, we who live here, are merely borrowed.P2-78 Where all are shorn, that place, is His home. Alas, the abandoning comes soon.