está determinado allá arriba y acá abaxo, en el Cielo y en el Infierno, que vos seáis el señor y poseáis la silla y estrado y dignidad deste reino, ciudad o pueblo. Brotado ha la raíz de vuestros antepasados que pusieron muy profunda y plantaron de muchos años atrás.
\n¡Oh, señor nuestro! Vos sois el que habéis de llevar la pesadumbre desta carga, deste reino, señorío o ciudad. Vos sois el que habéis de succeder a vuestros antepasados los señores reyes, vuestros progenitores, para llevar la carga que ellos llevaron. Vos, señor, habéis de poner vuestras espaldas debaxo desta carga grande, que es el regimiento deste reino. En vuestras espaldas y en vuestro regazo y en vuestros brazos pone nuestro señor Dios este oficio y dignidad de regir y gobernar a la gente popular, que son muy antojadizos y muy enojadizos. Vos, señor, por algunos años los habéis de sustentar y regalar, como a niños que están en la cuna. Vos habéis de poner en
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\n“Oh, our lord! You are the one who will bear the heaviness of this burden—this kingdom, domain, or city. You are the one who will succeed your ancestors, the lord kings, your parents, to carry the burden that they carried. You, lord, will place your shoulders under the great burden that is to rule this kingdom. Our lord is placing upon your shoulders, in your lap, and in your arms this job and position of ruling and governing the common people, who are quite unpredictable and very prone to anger. You, lord, will have to support and regale them during the coming years as if they were babies who are still in their cradles. You will place
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\nA ca oc tehoatl toneticiviz, ca oc tehoatl tiqujnqujmjlpatlaz, tiqujncacaxceviz in mutechiuhcaoan in tetecutin in tlatoque in mjtzmocaviliteoaque, in jntechpa timoqujxti, in ie nachca ommantiuj: tehoatl itlan tonaquj in vei qujmilli, in vei cacaxtli, in tlatconj, in tlamamalonj: tê mocujtlapan, tê mocuexanco, tê momamaloazco qujtlalia in totecujo, in tlatqujtl in tlamamalli, in cujtlapilli, in atlapalli in maceoalli in monenequjnj, in moçoçomanj:
\noc cuel achica, oc cuel tehoatl tonpilaviltiz toncoçulvivixoz:
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\n“Yet it is thou: thou wilt take over the burden, thou wilt take the bundle, thou wilt carry the carrying frame for thy progenitors, the lords, the rulers who departed bequeathing it to thee. Thou wilt take the place of those who have gone to remain beyond. Thou art to devote thyself to the great bundle, the great carrying frame, the governed. On thy back, on thy lap, in thy arms our lord placeth the governed, the vassals, the common folk, the capricious, the peevish.2
\n“For yet a while thou wilt fondle them as children; thou wilt rock the cradle.
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