me habéis hecho, ¿Por ventura esto ha sido por intercesión de los lloros y lágrimas que derramaron los pasados señores y señoras que tuvieron cargo deste reino? Cosa sería de gran locura que yo pensase que por mis merecimientos y por mi valor me habéis hecho esta merced de me haber puesto en el regimiento muy pesado y muy dificultoso y aun espantoso de vuestro reino, que es como una carga que se lleva a cuestas, muy pesada, que con gran dificultad la llevaron a cuestas los señores pasados que le rigieron en vuestro nombre.
\n¡Oh, señor humanísimo, regidor y gobernador invisiible y inpalpable, criador y sabidor de todas las cosas y pensamientos, adornador de las ánimas! ¿Qué diré más, pobre de mí? ¿Qué modo tendré en gobernar y regir esta vuestra república? ¿Cómo tengo de llevar esta carga del regimiento de la gente popular, que soy ciego y sordo, que aun a mí no me sé conocer ni regir, porque soy acostumbrado de andar entre el estiércol, y mi facultad es buscar y vender yerbas para comer, y traer leña a cuestas para vender?
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"4075152d-5608-48c2-85d0-0e56a2e44d7f","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"a great favor. Has this happened, perhaps, because of the intercession of the cries and tears shed by the previous lords and ladies who were in charge of this kingdom? It would be madness for me to think that it is because of my merits and because of my worth that you have done me this favor of having appointed me to this very heavy, very difficult, and even frightening governance of your kingdom, which is like a very heavy burden that is carried on one’s back, one that the previous lords who ruled in your name carried on their backs with great difficulty.\n\n“Oh, most humane lord, invisible and intangible ruler and governor, creator and knowing all things and thoughts, the one who adorns souls! What more shall I say, miserable as I am? In what way shall I govern and rule this republic of yours? How can I bear this burden of ruling the common people, for I am deaf and blind, and I do not even know how to recognize or rule myself, since I am used to walking around in dung, and my skill is to search for edible herbs to sell and to carry firewood on my back to sell?","html":"a great favor. Has this happened, perhaps, because of the intercession of the cries and tears shed by the previous lords and ladies who were in charge of this kingdom? It would be madness for me to think that it is because of my merits and because of my worth that you have done me this favor of having appointed me to this very heavy, very difficult, and even frightening governance of your kingdom, which is like a very heavy burden that is carried on one’s back, one that the previous lords who ruled in your name carried on their backs with great difficulty.
\n“Oh, most humane lord, invisible and intangible ruler and governor, creator and knowing all things and thoughts, the one who adorns souls! What more shall I say, miserable as I am? In what way shall I govern and rule this republic of yours? How can I bear this burden of ruling the common people, for I am deaf and blind, and I do not even know how to recognize or rule myself, since I am used to walking around in dung, and my skill is to search for edible herbs to sell and to carry firewood on my back to sell?
\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"8335c5d1-6b6d-488b-8b45-84d9cd7f6bff","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"moiollo otinechmocnelili: aço inchoqujz, aço intlaocul: aço invitz, aço imjeuh vecatlan contlazteoaque in vevetque, in jlamatque in ie nachca ommantiuj: \n\nma çan nê njnotta ma njcnolviltoca, ma njcnomactoca in njctemjquj, in njccochitleoa: in tlatconj, in tlamamalonj, in etic, in aeoaliztli in aixnamjqujliztli: in vey qujmjlli, in vei cacaxtli, in aqujiecotivi in ie nachca ommantivi, in omjtzmotlapialilico in opetlatico, yn oicpaltico. \n\nÇa ie ixqujchtzin tlacatle, totecoe: tloquee, naoaquee, iooalle, ehecatle, teiocoianje, tehimatinje, techichioanje: ninotolinja, quen njcnochiviliz in matzin, in motepetzin: quen njcchioaz in tlatqujtl, in tlamamalli, in cujtlapilli, in atlapalli: ca njxpopoiotl, ca njnacaztzatza, ca anommati in njxco, in nocpac: auh ca cujtlatitlan, tlaçultitlan nonemja: auh ca qujlitl, ca quavitl nolvil notequjuh. \n\nAuh ca vnca in vel nol[hvil,]","html":"moiollo otinechmocnelili: aço inchoqujz, aço intlaocul: aço invitz, aço imjeuh vecatlan contlazteoaque in vevetque, in jlamatque in ie nachca ommantiuj:
\nma çan nê njnotta ma njcnolviltoca, ma njcnomactoca in njctemjquj, in njccochitleoa: in tlatconj, in tlamamalonj, in etic, in aeoaliztli in aixnamjqujliztli: in vey qujmjlli, in vei cacaxtli, in aqujiecotivi in ie nachca ommantivi, in omjtzmotlapialilico in opetlatico, yn oicpaltico.
\nÇa ie ixqujchtzin tlacatle, totecoe: tloquee, naoaquee, iooalle, ehecatle, teiocoianje, tehimatinje, techichioanje: ninotolinja, quen njcnochiviliz in matzin, in motepetzin: quen njcchioaz in tlatqujtl, in tlamamalli, in cujtlapilli, in atlapalli: ca njxpopoiotl, ca njnacaztzatza, ca anommati in njxco, in nocpac: auh ca cujtlatitlan, tlaçultitlan nonemja: auh ca qujlitl, ca quavitl nolvil notequjuh.
\nAuh ca vnca in vel nol[hvil,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"a4b9b6d7-6407-4286-b5ff-099650456a09","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":"thy heart, thou hast shown me mercy. Perhaps it is [because of] the weeping, the sorrowing, of the old men, the old women, those who have gone beyond to reside; perhaps it is [because of] their spines, their maguey[^3] which they left planted deep.\n\n“May I not regard myself. May I not consider myself worthy of the favor, may I not consider myself deserving of that of which I dream, which I see in dreams. It is the load, the burden on the back, heavy, intolerable, insupportable; the large bundle, the large carrying frame which those who already have gone to reside beyond went assuming when they came to guard for thee, when they came to reign.\n\n“It is all, O master, O our lord, O lord of the near, of the nigh, O night, O wind, O Teyocoyani, O Teimatini, O Techichiuani. Poor am I. In what manner shall I act for thy city? In what manner shall I act for the governed, for the vassals? For I am blind, I am deaf, I am an imbecile, and in excrement, in filth hath my lifetime been; and my desert, my task, is greens, is wood.[^4]\n\n“And here my real \n\n\n\n\n[^3]: *imjeuh:* read *imeuh*, “their maguey.” Context and evidence here and in Chap. 25 favor this translation rather than *imyeuh*, “their smoking tube.”\n\n\n[^4]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”y mj facultad: es buscar, y vender yeruas para comer, y traer leña a cuestas, para vender.”*","html":"thy heart, thou hast shown me mercy. Perhaps it is [because of] the weeping, the sorrowing, of the old men, the old women, those who have gone beyond to reside; perhaps it is [because of] their spines, their maguey1 which they left planted deep.
\n“May I not regard myself. May I not consider myself worthy of the favor, may I not consider myself deserving of that of which I dream, which I see in dreams. It is the load, the burden on the back, heavy, intolerable, insupportable; the large bundle, the large carrying frame which those who already have gone to reside beyond went assuming when they came to guard for thee, when they came to reign.
\n“It is all, O master, O our lord, O lord of the near, of the nigh, O night, O wind, O Teyocoyani, O Teimatini, O Techichiuani. Poor am I. In what manner shall I act for thy city? In what manner shall I act for the governed, for the vassals? For I am blind, I am deaf, I am an imbecile, and in excrement, in filth hath my lifetime been; and my desert, my task, is greens, is wood.2
\n“And here my real
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