full view, Scene 21, left side

"For so signal a benefit Señor Don Fernando Cortes, Marquis of the Valley, gave thanks to God and besought of Maria Santisima her powerful favor for those who had been converted and for a successful journey, because he was going to Castille to report our conversion to Charles V. Turn upon us thy pitying eyes. Have pity upon us in thy presence, praying that thou mayst clean and purify our souls! Hearken to there poor sinners! Mother of pity! Give me success in my enterprises, direct all my steps, just as by thy bounty I have the felicity of believing in thy divine son! Turn upon us thy pitying eyes." [Source: Frederick Starr's English translation of the text found in the corresponding scene in the version he saw in the pueblo in 1898, published in his The Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1898), p. 18]