[sabe]mos si vivirá algunos días, o si no, porque esto nos está tan dudoso, como lo que soñamos durmiendo. Pues cualquiera cosa que nuestro señor haga de la criatura, vos habéis hecho bien vuestro oficio. Descansad y tomad placer. Haga su voluntad nuestro señor. Esperemos lo que querrá hacer mañana o esotro día. No sabemos lo que será de nosotros ni de la criatura que nació mañana o esotro día. Seáis muy dichosa, señora preciosa. No quiero más alargarme en palabras por no dar fastidio a vuestra cabeza ni a vuestro estómago. Y vais1 muchos días y en mucho contento. Nuestro señor os dé toda asosiego y paz.
\nResponde la partera, y dice:
\nSeñoras nuestras de gran valor. Aquí estáis sentadas por la voluntad de nuestro señor que está en todo lugar. Bien he visto el trabajo que habéis tenido todos estos días pasados, que ni habéis dormido ni reposado, esperando con mucha angustia el suceso del parto y lo que nuestra madre y señora Cihuacóatl Quilaztli haría en este negocio. Ansimismo esperábades con angustia y trabajo
\nDebe leerse "viváis".↩
if it will live for just a few days or not, because this is as doubtful to us as the dreams that we have when we sleep. But whatever our lord does with the baby, you have performed your task well. Rest, and be at your leisure. May our lord’s will be done. Let us place our hope in what he will do tomorrow or the next day. We do not know what tomorrow or the next day will bring for us or for the newborn baby. May you be very happy, precious lady. I do not want to prolong my words further, so as not to give you a headache or a stomachache. And may you live1 very happily for many days. May our lord grant you complete peace and tranquility.”
\nThe midwife replies, saying,
\n“Our most worthy ladies, you have been seated here by the will of our lord, who is everywhere. I was able to see very well the trouble that you have endured for all these past days; for you neither slept nor rested as you so anxiously waited for a successful childbirth and for what our mother and lady Cihuacoatl Quilaztli would do in this matter. Likewise, you waited with much anxiety and trouble
\n“And may you live”: The text mistakenly reads Y vais (And you go), when it should read Y viváis (And may you live).↩
auh cujx achi qujtlaliz tonatiuh, cujx no ie in amo: ca titemjquj, ca ticochitleoa, ca titemjctlamati. Auh maço nellehoatl, tlaltech ximovetziti, ma tlaltech ximaxiti: ma momatzin, mocxitzin xicmocevili: ma oc techmoiocoli in totecujo, ma oc tictotemachilican, in quecin conmonenequjltiz, ma tictochialilican: anca quen muztla, viptla, anca quen tamjque o, in macujl, matlac: tle ticmatcatzintli, tlaçotitlacatzintli: motzontecontzin, melchiqujuhtzin noconeoaz, noconquauhtiliz: ma ximotlacotili, ma ximotequjtili: auh ma mjtzmotlamatcatlalili in totecujo.
\nTlananqujlia in jmac tlacatioanj: qujtoa. Tlaçotitlaca, totecujoa: ca njcan amechalmotlalilia, in totecujo, in jpalnemoanj, in tloque, naoaque: â ca nelle axcan, ie macujl, ie matlac in acan veli anqujmuchivilia: â in an[qujmococochmachititoque,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"5c63da57-45c1-4d00-983e-ecd01c410d6d","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"And perhaps it will live for a little time. Also perhaps it will not be as we dream, as we see in our sleep, as we interpret our dreams.[^3] And since it is as it is, rest, find repose, rest thy hands, thy feet. May yet our lord dispose for us; let us yet trust in that which he will dispose; let us await how it will be tomorrow, the next day; how it will be with us in a short while. Peace be with thee, precious person! I shall pain, I shall trouble thy head, thy breast. Work, labor! And may our lord rest thee in peace.”\n\nThe one in charge of childbirth answered; she said: “Precious persons, our ladies: our lord, he by whom we live, the lord of the near, of the nigh, seateth you here, for verily now for a while ye have nowhere succeeded in doing your work. Without \n\n\n\n\n[^3]: *Ibid.: “porque esto nos esta tan dudoso como lo que soñamos durmjẽdo.”*","html":"And perhaps it will live for a little time. Also perhaps it will not be as we dream, as we see in our sleep, as we interpret our dreams.1 And since it is as it is, rest, find repose, rest thy hands, thy feet. May yet our lord dispose for us; let us yet trust in that which he will dispose; let us await how it will be tomorrow, the next day; how it will be with us in a short while. Peace be with thee, precious person! I shall pain, I shall trouble thy head, thy breast. Work, labor! And may our lord rest thee in peace.”
\nThe one in charge of childbirth answered; she said: “Precious persons, our ladies: our lord, he by whom we live, the lord of the near, of the nigh, seateth you here, for verily now for a while ye have nowhere succeeded in doing your work. Without
\nIbid.: “porque esto nos esta tan dudoso como lo que soñamos durmjẽdo.”↩