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In this verse, as frequently elsewhere, the syllable ya is introduced merely to complete the metre. 8. noncoati, for ni-on-coatl, I am a guest. The references in this verse are obscure, and I doubt if I have solved them. "The house of spring;" compare the expression in v. 1, of Nezahualcoyotl's song, p. 42. A long oration of Xicontecatl, lord of Tizatlan, may be found in Clavigero, Hist.
O, you there in Tlaxcala, you have played like sweet bells upon your drums, even like brilliantly colored flowers. There was Xicontecatl, lord of Tizatlan, the rosy-mouthed, whose songs gave joy like flowers, who listened to the words of the one only God. O, anqui nohuia y, ye mochan ipalnemohua xochipetlatl ye noca xochitica on tzauhticac oncan mitztlatlauhtia in tepilhua ohuaya.
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