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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 41] 41 +	F41
1 ¶ yllihuacanoo - geellihuacȃna - [2] niqueçaco xochicuahuitla · yqui[3]paqui tlapȃni yectli ye nocuic [4] om · hama yye / ayahui ohuaya · o	1 I've come to set up the flower tree.P4-7 Within it my good songs are bursting open.
5 ¶ nicmoyahua yn tocuic gelihui [6] om o/ca tinemiya / titlaocoya y - [7] ma melel quitza macaoc tle qui[8]matin / moyolo yehuȃ / cuicaticȃ [9] tla - ximoquimilocan / om hama [10] yyee / ayahuiyo	5 I scatter these songs of ours. They're p  ̑ eled out where you are grieving.P4-8 Be entertained. Don't let your heart be worried anymore. Be adorned with these songs.
2	[XXXIV] [Part 4, Song 2]
12 ¶ ach iuhqui xochitl · yn cuicȃtl / yn [13] tonequimilol i antocnihuã / yca [14] ye tonemico · yn tp  ̑ c · ca ohuaya o	12 Like flowers, songs are our adornment, friends. It's for this that we've come to live on earth.
15 ¶ yye neli yehua tocuic - ye neli ye [16] toxochi oo yectli ya cuicatli - [17] y  ̑ tlanel chalchihuitl · y teo[18]cuitlatl · yn q  ̑ tzali patlahua / [1]	15 Truly our songs, truly our flowers are good songs. Let's have these jades, these gold ones, these broad plumes. Let me have them here beside the drum. Can it be true that death for us would be vanquished here on earth? Singer that I am, oh would that it might be so.
[folio 41v] 41	F41v
[1] tla noconomanili huehuetitla [2] ye nican · cuix neli can pulihuiz [3] yn tomiquiz yn tp  ̑ c·qui ha hu■ [4] nicuicani tla / yca hui ye yuhcan [5] ohuaya o
6 ¶ tocuicȃpactia yoo ohaye / tito[7]xochinquimolohua nican ne[8]li mach in quimatin · toyolo ye[9]huȃ / çã toconcauhtehua oohua[10]ye yncȃ ye nichoca nicnotlama[11]tiya ohuaya o	6 We are song-glad,P4-9 adorned with flowers here. Yes, our hearts enjoy them. Alas, we go away and leave them, and so I weep, I grieve.
12 ¶ yn tlacã ye nellin ayac / ye cotlami[13]tehuaz monecuiltonol y moxochi[14]uh moyocoyatzin yehua ya dios i / [15] çȃ tococauhtehuȃ oohuaye - yn[16]ca ye nichocȃ - nicnotlamatiya [17] ohuaya o /	12 If only it were not true: no one when he's gone will enjoy your riches, your flowers, God Self Maker. We go away and leave them, and so I weep, I grieve.
18 ¶ xochitica ye nicȃn momalina[19]co tecpinlotl · ynn icniuhyotl - [20] ma yc xonahuiyacan / aya - [1]	18 As flowers here the nobles, the comrades come spinning?P4-10 Be pleasured. Right here on earth.P4-11