Dice este refrán el que da poco o hace poco en favor de otro, y por dar a entender que si más pudiera, más hiciera, dice: zan ye ixquich motlacatili. Quiere decir: "Recebid la buena voluntad, que si más pudiera hacer, más hiciera."
\nDícese este refrán de los oficiales mecánicos que ponen gran diligencia en adornar y hermosear las cosas de su oficio para que parezcan bien y se vendan presto y valgan más. Dícese también de los lisonjeros y de las que componen hermosamente sus palabras para alcanzar lo que demandan o lo que pretenden. Y así déstos se dice: ¿Ac ai cuitlaxcoltzin quitlatlamachia?1 Quiere [decir]: "Por ganar de comer no sabe afeitar lo que dice y lo que hace."
\nEsta proposición es de Platón, y el Diablo la enseñó acá, porque es errónea, es falsísima,
\nDebe decir quitlatlamachica.↩
This saying is said by one who gives away little or does little to help someone else; and in order to imply that he would do more if he could, he says, “Zan ye ixquich motlacatili.” It means, “Please accept my good intention, for I would do more if I could.”
\nThis saying is said about those mechanical tradesmen who are very diligent in adorning and beautifying the things of their trade so that these look good, are promptly sold, and are of greater value. It is also said about the flatterers and about those who compose their words very beautifully in order to obtain what they are asking for or what they are aiming for. And so it is said about these ones, “Aca icuitlaxcoltzin quitlatlamachia?”1 It means, “Eager as he is to earn his food, he does not know how to [stop] polishing what he says and what he does.”
\nThis proposition belongs to Plato,2 and the devil taught it in these parts, because it is erroneous, utterly false,
\ntiatta, moquaquatlaça, in aiac tle ipan qujtta: auh injc mjiecpa nonotzalo, ie iviantzin mocnomattiuh: in maca çan potro, çan jvian ie tlacaciuhtiuh: ic mjtoa. Ie ôiauh. etc.
\nIquac mjtoa: intla çan tepiton tiqujtoa in amo vei, in jciuhca ontzonqujça: in jquac ontzonqujz, tiqujtoa. Çan jxqujch motlacatili
\nItechpa mjtoa: in tlachichiuhquj, in juhquj amantecatl, in vel qujiecchichioa in jtlachioal, in vel qujtlamachiotia: injc yciuhca aqujz, coaloz.
\nIn tlein mochioaia cenca ie vecauh, in aiocmo mochioa: auh oc ceppa mochioaz, oc ceppa iuh tlamanjz, in juh tlamanca ie vecauh: in iehoantin, in axcan nemj, oc ceppa nemjzque, iezque.
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\nIt is said at this time: If it is only a little thing. We say it when the little quickly ends. When it has come to an end, we say: “It is just born.”
\nIt is said of the artisan like a feather worker, who ornaments what he makes well, who designs it well with designs to sell quickly, to be bought.
\nWhat was done in very old times, is no longer done, but once again it will be done, once again it will thus be customary as it was customary in ancient times. Those who live now will live, will exist once again.
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