ya sois del estado de los casados, que es tlapalihui. Comenzad de trabajar en llevar cargas a cuestas por los caminos, como es chilli y sal, y salitre y peces, andando de pueblo en pueblo. Enseñaos a los trabajos y fatigas que habéis de sentir en el corazón y en el cuerpo, dormiendo a los rincones en las casas ajenas, en las portadas de las casas donde no conocéis. Haceos a los trabajos de pasar los arroyos y de subir las cuestas y de pasar los páramos. Haceos a los trabajos de pasar grandes soles y grandes fríos, do habréis menester de templar el calor del Sol con el aventadero de pluma que habéis de llevar en la mano. Haceos a los trabajos de comer pan seco con maíz tostado. No penséis, hijo, que de aquí adelante habéis de vivir en regalos y en delicadeces, porque habéis con vuestro sudor de ganar la comida. A nadie se le viene a casa lo que ha de comer y beber. A nadie se le caye delante lo que han menester. No se junta la hacienda sin trabajo. Es menester trabajar con todas las fuerzas para alcanzar la misericordia de Dios. No hay otra cosa que os decir. Queda en buena hora."
\nbecause you are now in the married state, which is tlapalihui. Start working by carrying on your back loads of chilli, salt, saltpeter, and fish, as you tread the roads from town to town. Get used to the toils and hardships that you will feel in your heart and in your body while you sleep in the corners of other people’s houses or in the doorways of houses where you do not know anyone. Get used to the hardships of crossing streams, climbing hillsides, and going across deserts. Get used to the hardship of enduring great heat and great cold, when you will have to cool the heat of the sun with the feather fan that you will carry in your hand. Get used to the hardship of eating dry bread made with toasted maize. Do not think, son, that from now on you are going to live in comfort or surrounded by delicacies, because now you will earn your food with your sweat. No one gets what one needs to eat and drink delivered to one’s home. The things that one needs never fall in one’s lap. No one accrues property without working. It is necessary to make every effort to work in order to attain god’s mercy. There is nothing left to say to you. May you fare well.”
\nin tepeoacan: a toneoaz, a chichinacaz in moiollotzin in monacaiotzin: in texomolco, in tecaltech, in tetlatzacujltitlan: a ticmjhijoujltiz in ticmopanaviliz in atlauhtli, in tepetl, in jxtlaoatl: a titonalciauhtiaz, a tehecaciauhtiaz: a ticmopaccaihijoujltiz in ticmoqualtiz in jtacaquavaccatzintli, in totopuchtzintli, in jzqujtzintli: cujx ticmaxcaviliz in jtzopelica, in javiaca, in jtotonca, in jiamanca in totecujo: cujx aca çan jxpan vetzi in qujqua, in quj: ca amo axcaujlo, ca uel ontlamj in tlapaliviztli: injc motta in jtetlaocolil totecujo. Ca ie ixqujch in ticmocaqujtia: ca ie ic timjtztocavilia.
\nto city. Torment, suffering will afflict thy heart, thy body, in another’s corner, by another’s wall, in another’s portals.1 Thou art to struggle when thou wilt cross the gorges, the mountains, the plains. Thou art to suffer the heat, thou art to endure the wind. Thou art to suffer patiently when thou art to eat the dried provisions, the toasted tortillas, the parched maize. Wilt thou perhaps acquire the sweetness, the fragrance, the warmth of our lord? 2 Doth that which someone eateth, drinketh perchance just fall before him? Are the necessities of life not procured by work? Exhaust well thy force to witness the mercy of our lord. This is all thou must hear, for already we leave thee.”
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