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You Choler, General, does unjustly rise, To see your Friends pursue your Enemies; The greatest and most cruel Foes we have Are these, whom you would ignorantly save. By ambush’d Men, behind their Temple laid, We have the King of Mexico betray’d.

Cortés: Your Magicians, your Idols, and your Fortune-tellers have cheated you.

And as he was thinking of nothing more than his return, because he could not make himself understood, he perceived a Woman whom the King of Potanchan had given him with some Indians, discoursing in the Language of Mexico with the Servants of this…

Marian, wholly devoted to the Spaniards, feigned an intention of profiting by this advice, and was thus admitted into the entire confidence of her friend, from whom she learnt that the day destined to the massacre of the Spaniards approached

In Guazacoalco, and in Xicalango, they spoke the general Mexican Language, and in Tabasco that of Yucatan, which Aguilar understood: So that Donna Marina understood both those Languages, and explained to the Indians in the Mexican, what Aguilar…

that famous town of Tlaxcalan , whose inhabitants joyned with Cortez, and we may say, were the chief Instruments of that great and unparallel’d Conquest.

Thou hast much to say for thyself. Thou gloriest in being a Tlascalan; thou art proud of the privileges of thy nation. Art thou not ashamed to boast of privileges which thy ancestors gained by treason; and treasures ill-kept, at the expense of thy…

Afterwards Cortez, with the Assistance of the Tlascalans, a Province always at War with the Mexicans, besieged Mexico, took Guatimozin Prisoner, with all his Family, and reduced the Town to his Obedience, having before that taken all the neighbouring…

This advice, however, was rejected, in consequence of the information Cortes received from the Zempoallans of his army, who assured him, that the cholulans were a faithless people, wholly devoted to Motezuma, whose troops were quartered in all the…