Note 614 — Chapter XV · NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.

Four poems or fragments are given in Spanish, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. viii., pp. 110-15. No. 1 has for its subject the tyrant Tezozomoc; No. 2 is an ode on the mutability of life; No. 3 is an ode recited at a feast, comparing the great kings of Anáhuac to precious stones; No. 4 was composed for the dedication of the author's palace and treats of the unsatisfactory nature of earthly honors. Nos. 2 and 3 are also found in Doc. Hist. Mex., serie iii., tom. iv., pp. 286-93. No. 2 is given in Prescott's Mex., vol. iii., pp. 425-30, in Spanish and English verse. A French translation of No. 1 is given by Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 672-4, who also gives an additional specimen from Carochi's grammar, in Aztec and Spanish. Nos. 1, 2, and 4 in French, in Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., pp. 411-17. No. 4 is to be found in Granados y Galvez, Tardes Amer., pp. 90-4. Nos. 1 and 4, in German, in Müller, Reisen, tom. iii., pp. 138-41, where are also two additional odes. No. 2 is also given in German by Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 146-51.