we done unto you? why do
you kill us? go then! in Mexico you will find our universal lord
Montezuma who will take vengeance upon you for us." It is said,
that while those five, or six thousand men were being put to the
sword in the courtyard, the captain of the Spaniards stood singing.

Mira Nero de Tarpeya
A Roma como se ardia.
Gritos dan ninos y viejos,
Y el de nada se dolia.

(89)
8. They perpetrated another great slaughter in the town of Tepeaca,
which was much larger and more populous than Cholula; they put
numberless people to the sword with great and particular kinds of
cruelty.
9. From Cholula they took their way towards Mexico; and the great king
Montezuma sent them thousands of presents; and lords and people came
to meet them with festivities while on their arrival at the paved
road to Mexico, which is two leagues long, his own brother appeared,
accompanied by many great lords bearing many presents of gold,
silver and clothing. At the entrance of the city he himself
descended from a golden litter, with all his great court to receive
them and to accompany them to the palaces, where he had given orders
they should be lodged; on that same day, according to what was told
me by some of those present, they managed by some feint, while he
suspected nothing, to take the great king Montezuma prisoner; and
then they put him in fetters and placed a guard of eighty men over
him.
10. But leaving all this, of which there would be many, and great things
to say, I only wish to relate a notable thing that those tyrants did
here. When the captain of the Spaniards went to capture a certain
other captain, (90) who came to attack him, he left one of his
captains with, I think, a hundred men or more, to keep guard over
the king Montezuma; these Spaniards decided to do another
extraordinary thing to increase the fear of them throughout the
land, a practice, as I have said, to which they often resorted.
11. All the Indians, plebeians as well as nobles of Montezuma's capital
and court, thought of nothing else but to give pleasure to their
captive monarch. Among other festivals they celebrated for him, one
was the performance in all the quarters and squares of the city of
those customary danc