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Besides the palace in which, Motezuma kept his court, he had several magnificent pleasure-houses; in one of which, a pompous building supported by pillars of jasper, he kept an aviary of birds, remarkable either for their singing or feathers, so…

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But there was a building in the most solitary part of the gardens, which surprised the Spaniards more than any thing they met with, and it was called the House of Sorrow, because the emperor used to retire thither on the death of his relations, or on…

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“But the most singular of all Motezuma‘s edifices was his house of sorrow, to which he retired in case of any public calamity, or at the death of a favourite relation. It was well calculated for promoting gloomy reflections, for the walls, roofs, and…

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Cacamatzin the king’s nephew, and prince of the city of Tezcuco, the largest next to Mexico in the empire, having received information that the king had been now many days kept prisoner by the Spaniards, and that they had also opened the treasury of…

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Mont. kneels to Cort. Mont. Patron of Mexico and God of Wars, Son of the Sun, and Brother of the Stars-

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The Tlascalans opposed this Resolution, advising them to take their March by Guajozingo, a Country plentiful and secure; for the People of Cholula, besides their natural Cunning and Treachery, obeyed Motezuma with a servile Fear, being the Vassals in…

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During a gloomy and very short symphony, Montezuma in chains is seated in the utmost affliction, surrounded by the Grandees of his Court, who poty and comfort him. Afterwards Pilpatoe in arms with some Mexicans.

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Some time after, the Mexicans having risen up in Arms against the Spaniards, who had suddenly fallen upon and murdered two hundred Youths, the Flower of their Nobility, while they were diverting their Captive King with Dances and other Sports, and…

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When we came near certain towers which are almost close to the city, Montezuma who was then there quitted his litter, and was borne in the arms of the princes of Tezcuco, Iztapalapa, Tacuba, and Cuyoacan, under a canopy of the richest materials,…

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Cortez, in this interview with the Cacique, gave him to understand that he had been sent by the great Emperor of the East to destroy oppression, and put an end to tyranny in that part of the world. This explanation encouraged the Cacique to break…

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…in the midst of which appeared Montezuma himself, seated in an open chariot of gold.

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Under this form of government they had long maintained themselves against the kings of Mexico, and were now at their highest pitch of power; for the cruelty of Motezuma had augmented the number of their confederates, among whom they reckoned the…

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The Palace of the Marquis de Valle, the Successor of the celebrated Cortez who conquered Mexico, is built on the Ground where one of the Palaces of the Emperor Montezuma stood, and admir’d for its Dimensions and Structure.

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It is not easy to discover from whence such a report could arise; but certain it is, that this ancient prophecy had overwhelmed the superstitious Mexicans and Montezuma himself with the most serious apprehensions.

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Pis. Our Men, tho’ valiant, we should find too few. But Indians join the Indians to subdue; Taxallan shook by Montezuma’s Power, Has, to resist his Forces, call’d our own.

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