_Cortes_ put about _Mutezuma_ his necke a coller of Margarites, Diamondes, & other stones al of glasse. _Mutezuma_ receyued it thankfully, & wente before with one of the princes his Neuewes, & cömaunded the other to lead _Cortes_ by the hand next after him in the middest of the streat: and procéeding forwarde in this order, then came the Gëtlemen in the richest liuery to welcome him one by one, touchyng the ground with their handes, & after returned to their standyng. And if the Citizens had come as they requested, all y^e day would not haue serued for salutatiös. The coller of glasse pleased well _Mutezuma_, and bycause he woulde not take without giuyng a better thing as a great prince, he commaunded to be brought twoo collers of redde prawnes, which there are muche estéemed, and at euery one of them hanged eight shrimpes of gold of excellent workemanship, & of a finger length euery one, he put these collers with the owne hands about _Cortes_ his necke, the which was estéemed a most great fauour, yea and the _Indians_ marueled at it. At this time they were come to the streate ende, whiche was almost a mile long, broade, straight and very fayre and full of houses on eche side, in whose dores, windowes and tops was such a multitude of _Indians_ to beholde the strangers, that I knowe not who wondered most, our men to sée such a number of them, or else they to sée our men, their ordinance & horses, a thing so straunge vnto them. They were brought vnto a great court or house of idols, which was y^e lodging of _Axaiaca_, at the dore where of _Mutezuma_ tooke _Cortes_ by the hande and brought him into a fayre hall, and placed him vpon a riche carpet, saying vnto him, Sir nowe are you in your owne house, eate and take your rest & pleasure, for I wil shortly come and visite you againe. Such (as you heare) was the receiuing of _Hernando Cortes_ by _Mutezuma_ a most mightie King, into his great and famous Citie of _Mexico_, the eight day of Nouember .1519. The Oration of Mutezuma to _the Spanyardes_. [Sidenote: A strange opinion.]