La manera de criar sus hijos que tenían los señores y gente noble es que después que las madres o sus amas los habían criado por espacio de seis años o siete, ya que comenzaban a regocijarse dábanlos uno o dos o tres pajes para que se regocijasen y borlasen con ellos, a los cuales avisaban la madre que no los consintiesen hacer ninguna fealdad o suciedad1 o deshonestidad cuando fuesen por el camino o calle. Instruían al niño estos que andaban con él para que hablase palabras bien criadas y buen lenguaje, y que no hiciese desacato a nadie, y reverenciase a todos los que topaba por el camino que eran oficiales de la república, capitanes o hidalgos, aunque no fuesen sino personas baxas, hombres y mujeres, como fuesen ancianos. Y si alguna persona, aunque fuese de baxa suerte, lo sa[ludaba,]
\nEstá tachado "y que tampoco se fuesen lexos de casa".↩
The way that the lords and the noble people educated their sons is that, after being raised by their mothers or by their nurses for a period of six or seven years, and just when they would start becoming playful, they would give them one, two, or three pages for them to play and joke around with. And the [child’s] mother would warn them not to allow their [children] to do any foul, dirty, or dishonest act1 when they were out in the street or on the road. These [pages] who accompanied the child would instruct him to speak polite words, good language, not to disrespect anyone, and to revere everyone whom they should meet on the street, whether officers of the republic, captains, hidalgos, or even those who were lowly people—both men and women—as well as elders. And if someone, even of low status,
\nThe following phrase is crossed out in the manuscript: y que tampoco se fuesen lexos de casa (and also that they should not wander far from their homes). See LAGQ 2:778.↩
[jnneoapa]oaliz in iehoantin in tlatoque impilhoan, ioan in jxqujchtin in tlaçopipilti, in jnpilhoan tlatoque, pipilti.
\niehoantin in jnnaoan, in jntaoan qujmjzcaltia, qujnoapaoa, anoço chichioame in qujnoapaoa in oc pipiltotonti:
\nauh in jcoac ie uel nenemj, aço ie chiquacenxiuhtia, njman ie ic iauh in maaujltiz, in qujnujca ixolooa aço ome anoço ei in caaujltiz, iehoantin qujncocultia in jtatzin in jnantzin injc amo tlauelilocatiz, injc amo qujmocujtlaujz tlauelilocaiotl: in jcoac otli qujtocaz.
\nAuh no cenca qujcujtlaujltiaia injc vel tenotzaz, injc qualli iez in jtlatol, injc teimacaçiz, injc temauhcaittaz, aço cana qujnamjqujz aço tecutlato, anoço achcauhtlaiacati, anoço iautequjoa, anoço çan aca tlapaltzintli, anoço veuentzin, anoço ilamatzin, anoço aca motolinja, qujtlapaloz cenca mopechteca, qujlhuja, xioalmoujca nocultzine, ma njmjtznotlaxili: auh in iehoatl
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\nTheir mothers and fathers nourished and raised them, or nursemaids raised them while they were still small children.
\nAnd when they could run, when they were perhaps six years old, thereupon [the boys] went [forth] to play. Their pages—perhaps two, or three—accompanied them that they might amuse them. [The child’s] father or mother charged these [pages] that [the boy] not behave ill, that he not taint himself with vice, as he went along the streets.
\nAnd also they took great care that he should converse fittingly with others—that his conversation should be proper; that he should respect and show reverence to others—[when] perchance he somewhere might chance to meet a judge, or a leading militia officer, or a seasoned warrior, or someone of lesser rank; or a revered old man, or a respected old woman; or someone who was poor. He should greet him and bow humbly. He said: “Come hither, my beloved grandfather; let me bow before thee.” And the
\nAfter jnpilhoan, the Real Academia de la Historia MS has the following, omitted from the Florentine Codex: “Inic mouapaua inic mozcaltia ça ye no yui in omihto in tlacatiliztli çan oc”—”they were reared and brought up just as hath been told in the [section] on birth.”↩