[335] “No consentiendo que haya sacrificios de gente humana, que Dios se enoja de ello, castigando con rigor á los que lo hicieren; que el dolor que llevo es no tener luz, ni conocimiento, ni ser merecedor de conocer tan gran Dios, el qual tengo por cierto que ya que los presentes no lo conozcan, _ha de venir tiempo en que sea conocido y adorado en esta tierra_.” MS. de Ixtlilxochitl. [336] Idem, ubi supra; also Hist. Chich., MS., cap. 49. [337] Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., MS., cap. 49. [338] “Solia amonestar á sus hijos en secreto que no adorasen á aquellas figuras de ídolos, y que aquello que hiciesen en público fuese _solo por cumplimiento_.” Ixtlilxochitl. [339] Idem, ubi supra. [340] The name _Nezahualpilli_ signifies “the prince for whom one has fasted,”--in allusion, no doubt, to the long fast of his father previous to his birth. (See Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., MS., cap. 45.) I have explained the meaning of the equally euphonious name of his parent, Nezahualcoyotl. (_Ante_, ch. 4.) If it be true that “Cæsar or Epaminondas Could ne’er without names have been known to us,” it is no less certain that such names as those of the two Tezcucan princes, so difficult to be pronounced or remembered by a European, are most unfavorable to immortality. [341] “De las concubinas la que mas privó con el rey fué la que llamaban la Señora de Tula, no por linage, sino porque era hija de un mercader, y era tan sabia que competia con el rey y con los mas sabios de su reyno, y era en la poesía muy aventajada, que con estas gracias y dones naturales tenia al rey muy sugeto á su voluntad de tal manera que lo que queria alcanzaba de él, y así vivia sola por si con grande aparato y magestad en unos palacios que el rey le mandó edificar.” Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., MS., cap. 57. [342] Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., MS., cap. 67.--The Tezcucan historian records several appalling examples of this severity,--one in particular, in relation to his guilty wife. The story, reminding one of the tales of an Oriental harem, has been translated for the Appendix, Part 2, No. 4. See also Torquemada (Monarch. Ind., lib. 2, cap. 66), and Zurita (Rapport, pp. 108, 109). He was the terror, in particular, of all unjust magistrates. They had little favor to expect from the man who could stifle the voice of nature in his own bosom in obedience to the laws. As Suetonius said of a prince who had not his virtue, “Vehemens et in coercendis quidem delictis immodicus.” Vita Galbæ, sec. 9. [343] Torquemada saw the remains of this, _or what passed for such_, in his day. Monarch. Ind., lib. 2, cap. 64. [344] Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., MS., cap. 73, 74.--This sudden transfer of empire from the Tezcucans, at the close of the reigns of two of their ablest monarchs, is so improbable that one cannot but doubt if they ever possessed it,--at least to the extent claimed by the patriotic historian. See _ante_, chap. 1, note 25, and the corresponding text.