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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

	Preface
	A Note on Orthography
	Introduction
	On the Translation of Aztec Poetry
	Guide to the Vocabulary
Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España/ Ballads of the Lords of New Spain
	Guide to the Transcription
	Part 1
[I] 1.	Friends, let us sing
[II] 2.	"I'm coming, I, Yoyontzin, craving flowers"
[III] 3.	Again they make music
[IV] 4.	God Self Maker’s home is nowhere
[V] 5.	Friends, listen to this
[VI] 6.	"I come to guard the city"
[VII] 7.	The flower lords, the song bells
[VIII] 8.	Chalco's come to fight
[IX] 9.	Let's drink
[X] 10.	For a moment God’s drums come forth
[XI] 11.	May your flesh, your hearts be leafy green
[XII] 12.	The flower trees are whirling
[XIII] 13.	In this flower house
[XIV] 14.	Princes, I’ve been hearing good songs
	Part 2
[XV] 1.	Now let us begin
[XVI] 2.	A master of egrets makes these flowers move
[XVII] 3.	On this flower mat you paint your songs
[XVIII] 4.	Are You obliging?
[XIX] 5.	I’m born in vain
[XX] 6.	I strike up a song
[XXI] 7.	I stand up the drum
[XXII] 8.	Your flowers blossom as bracelets
[XXIII] 9.	My heart is greatly wanting flowers
[XXIV] 10.	Let there be comrades
[XXV] 11.	Strike it up beautifully
[XXVI] 12.	Eagle flowers, broad leafy ones, are sprouting
[XXVII] 13.	A shield-roaring blaze-smoke rises up
[XXVIII] 14.	Flowers are our only adornment
	Part 3
[XXIX]	[. . .]
[XXIX-A]	1-A. You paint with flowers, with songs
[XXX] 2.	Your flowers are jade
[XXXI] 3.	Come forth and play our drum
[XXXII] 4.	In the house of pictures
	Part 4
[XXXIII] 1.	Begin in beauty
[XXXIV] 2.	Like flowers
[XXXV] 3.	"Never with shields"
[XXXVI] 4.	Jade, turquoise: your chalk, [your] plumes
	Commentary
	Concordance to Proper Nouns
	Verbs, Particles, and Common Nouns
	Appendix I: Two Versions of the Myth of the Origin of Music
	Appendix II: Corrections for the Cantares Edition
	Bibliography