esto sé, que en mí no hay merecimiento para que venga a luz y nazca en el mundo. Duda tengo que nuestro señor le dé luz para que se conozca la merced que me ha hecho. Aquí está presente vuestro siervo y criado. Siempre andamos juntos como trabados de las manos. No sé si lo verá. No sé si conocerá. No sé si verá la cara de lo que de su sangre se ha hecho, que es lo que tengo en el vientre. No sé si verá a su imagen, que es la criatura que está en mí, o si por ventura nuestro señor, que está en todo lugar, se quiere reír de nosotros deshaciéndole como agua, o dándole alguna enfermedad en su ternura, o nacerá sin tiempo y nos dexará con el deseo de generación, porque ni nuestro lloro ni nuestra penitencia merece otra cosa. Esperemos en nuestro señor. Por ventura no lo merecemos.
\nPadres míos y señores míos muy amados, deséoos todo reposo y todo contento.
\none thing for certain, that I do not deserve for this light to arrive and be born into the world. I doubt that our lord will let it be born so that the favor that he has granted me may be known. Here present is your servant and attendant.1 We always move forward together, as if holding hands. I do not know if he will see it. I do not know if he will get to know [it]. I do not know if he will see the face of what was made from his own blood, which is what I am carrying inside my womb. I do not know if he will see his own image, which is the baby that is inside of me, or if perhaps our lord, who is everywhere, wants to mock us by dissolving [our baby] like water or by causing it some illness while it is still tender, or if it will be born at the wrong time and leave us with the desire to reproduce , because neither our weeping nor our penance deserves anything else. Let us place our hopes in our lord. Perhaps we do not deserve it.
\n“My very beloved parents and lords, I wish you every peace and every happiness.”
\nThat is, her husband.↩
tlanextli in totecujo, in quenami ic nechmapanjlia.
\nAuh can iz onca in amoquauh, in amocelouh, in tomatech tontantinemj: cujx qujttaz, cujx qujximatiz, cujx ijxco, icpac tlachiaz in jiezio, in jtlapallo, in jneiximachiliz, cujx mjxiptlatiz: auh ano ie tictotlavevetzqujtilia, in tloque, naoaque: cujx ixqujchtzin atzintli, conmopolviz in totecujo: cujx itla ic oncocolizcujz in piltzintli, in atzintli, cujx itla ic onolinjz, topilneccaio techonmaitiliz in totecujo: mach tichocanj, mach titlaocoianj: ma oc tictotemachilican in totecujo: acaço tle tolhvil, acaço tle tomaceoal: notechiuhcaoan, tlaçotitlacatzitzinti, notecujiotzitzinoan: ma tlaltech ximaxitican.
\nour lord will cause that with which I am adorned to see the light of day.
\n“And here is thy humble one. Our hands are together; we go holding hands. Perhaps he will see, perhaps he will know, perhaps he will behold the face of that which is his blood, his color, recognizable as his. Perhaps it will be his image. But on the other hand, the lord of the near, of the nigh, may laugh at us. Perhaps our lord will completely destroy the tender thing. Perhaps something will cause the baby, the tender thing to sicken. Perhaps something will cause it to be stillborn; our lord will leave us [still] desiring a child. Certainly we are weepers, we are sorrowers. Let us have faith in our lord; perhaps something is our desert, perhaps something is our merit. My progenitors, precious persons, my lords, find repose.”
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