Your Excellency is attired and arrayed and assured in your conspicuous excellency, and I am only I.īut Your Excellency wishes to hear of what I was. Common report throughout the city, and these your servitors here, have made plain to me how august a man you are, Your Excellency, while I am but a threadbare rag, a frayed raveling of what once was. It impresses me the more that a personage of such eminent excellency should have summoned such a one as myself to speak words in Your Excellency's presence.Īh, no, Your Excellency, do not demur if I appear to flatter Your Excellency. So, my lordĪyyo, even more illustrious-what we of these lands would call an ahuaquáhuitl, a tree of great shade.
You are a man, and not one man of all the men I have met in my life has ever resented being addressed as a lord. Pardon me, my lord, that I do not know your formal and fitting honorific, but I trust I do not hazard my lord's taking offense.
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