entres y vivas donde están en su guarda y recogimiento, con las religiosas vírgines de calmécac. Y agora que ya eres de edad de discreción, ruégote que de todo tu corazón cumplas el voto que ellos hicieron. Mira que no le desbarates tú, ni le deshagas o destruyas, pues que ya eres adulta y no eres niña, sino que entiendes. Y mira que no vas a alguna casa de malas mujeres, donde se vive mal, que no vas sino a la casa de Dios, donde Dios es llamado y adorado con lloros y con lágrimas, y es casa de devoción, y donde nuestro señor comunica sus riquezas y sus siervas hinchen las manos de sus dones, y donde se demanda y se busca con penitencia su amor y su amistad. En este lugar quien llora y quien es devoto, y quien suspira, y quien se humilla, y quien se llega a nuestro señor, hace gran bien para sí; porque nuestro señor le dará sus dones y le adornará y hallará merecimientos y dignidad; porque nuestro señor
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\nSince the following paragraphs of the speech are directed to the female novice, I use the feminine pronouns throughout in the English translation, even though Sahagún uses the masculine pronouns in the Spanish. The Nahuatl text makes no gender distinction here.↩
[mjtzi]toque in totecujo, in tloque, naoaque, in jtech tipovizquj in qualtin, iectin in jveltioatzitzinoan totecujo, in chipaoaque, in jchpupuchtin, in chalchiuhtin, in maqujztin in teuxiuhtin, in quetzalti: ca vmpa timovicaz, ca vmpa timocalaqujz: in vmpa cenqujztoque, in motlaçopixtoque in jpihoan.
\nAuh injn ca ie tiuhcatzintli in: ma xiciollocacopavi, ma te xicxitinj, ma moiollocopa xicvelo in monetol: ca aiocmo cenca ticonetl, ca aiocmo cenca tipiltontli, ca ie timotlacaqujtia:
\nAuh injn: ca amo avilpan, ca amo camanalpan in tiauh: ca ichan in totecujo, ca vmpa tlatolchialo, ca vmpa notzalo, tzatzililo, ca choqujzcali, ca ixaiocali, ca tlaoculcali: ca vncan ixillantzinco, itozcatlantzinco mamaiaooa in totecujo: vnca itlanjlilo, vncan temolilo in jhijotzin, in jtlatoltzin, vncan tlamaceoalo.
\nAqujn onchocac, aqujn ontlaocux, a[qujn]
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\n“And this [being so], as thou art already of age, put thy heart to it. Do not break, do thy best not to ruin thy vow, for no longer art thou much of a girl, for no longer art thou much of a baby, for already thou hast discretion.
\n“And this: thou goest not to the place of courtesans, the place of diversions, [but rather] to the house of our lord; for there the word is awaited; he is summoned, he is cried out to. It is a house of weeping, a house of tears, a house of sadness, where the secrets of our lord are taken from his bosom, from his lap; where his spirit, his words are requested, are sought; where there is penance.
\n“Whoever hath wept, whoever hath sorrowed,
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