Note 615 — Chapter XV · NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.
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Boturini, Idea, pp. 90-7. The language of their poetry was brilliant, pure, and agreeable, figurative, and embellished with frequent comparisons to the most pleasing objects in nature. Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 174-6. Nezahualcoyotl left sixty hymns composed in honor of the Creator of Heaven. Id., tom. i., pp. 232, 245-7; Pimentel, Mem. sobre la Raza Indígena, pp. 57-9; Prescott's Mex., vol. i., pp. 108, 171-5; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 639-40. 'Cantauan lamentaciones, y endechas. Tenian pronosticos, especialmente que se auia de acabar el mundo, y los cantauan lastimosamente: y tambien tenian memoria de sus grandezas, en cantares y pinturas.' Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vi., cap. xvi.; Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 275.