ape
out of their clutches, especially Souldiers, setting fire to the
Temple, burnt all those that were there inclosed, who brake out into
these dying words and exclamations. O profligate Men, what injury have
we done you to occasion our death! Go, go to _Mexico_, where our
supream Lord _Montencuma_ will revenge our cause upon your persons.
And 'tis reported, while the Spaniards were engated in this Tragedy
destroying six or seven thousand Men, that their Commander with great
rejoycing sang this following Ayre;

_Mira_ Nero _de_ Tarpeia, Roma _como se ardia,
Gritos de_ Ninos _y Vieyot, y el de nadase dolia._

_From the_ Tarpeian _still Nero espies_
Rome _all in Flames with unrelenting Eyes,_
_And hears of young and old the dreadful Cries._

They also committed a very great Butchery in the City _Tepeara_, which
was larger and better stored with Houses than the former; and here they
Massacred an incredible number with the point of the Sword.

Setting sail from _Cholula_, they steer'd their course to _Mexico_,
whose King sent his Nobles and Peers with abundance of Presents to meet
them by the way, testifying by divers sorts of Recreations how grateful
their arrival was and acceptable to him: but when they came to a steep
Hill, his brother went forward to meet them accompanied with many
Noblemen who brought them many gifts in Gold, Silver, and Robes
Emboidered with Gold and at their entrance into the City, the King
himself carried in a golden Litter, together (with the whole Court)
attended them to the Palace prepared for their reception; and that very
day as I was informed by some persons then and there present by a grand
piece of Treachery, they took the very great King _Montencuma_, never
so much as dreaming of any such surprize, and put him into the custody
of eighty Soldiers, and afterward loaded this Legs with irons; but all
these things being passed over with a light pencil of which much might
be said, one thing I will discover acted by them, that may merit your
obervation. When the Captain arrived at the Haven, to fight with a
Spanish Officer, who made War against him, and left another with an
hundred Soldiers, more or less as a Guard to King _Montencuma_, it came
into their heads, that to act somewhat worth remembrance, that the
dread of their Cruelty might be more and more apprehended, and greatly
increased.

In the interim all the Nobility and Commonality of the City thought of
nothing else, but ho