On my breast also they hung a great gem that gleamed like moonlit water, and beneath my chin a false beard made from pink sea shells.

Then having twined me round with wreaths of flowers till I thought of the maypole on Bungay Common, they rested from their labours, filled with admiration at their handiwork.
Now the music sounded again and they gave me two lutes, one of which I must hold in either hand, and conducted me to the great hall of the palace.

Here a number of people of rank were gathered, all dressed in festal attire, and here also on a dais to which I was led, stood my four wives clad in the rich dresses of the four goddesses Xochi, Xilo, Atla, and Clixto, after whom they were named for the days of their wifehood, Atla being the princess Otomie.

When I had taken my place upon the dais, my wives came forward one by one, and kissing me on the brow, offered me sweetmeats and meal cakes in golden platters, and cocoa and mescal in golden cups.

Of the mescal I drank, for it is a spirit and I needed inward comfort, but the other dainties I could not touch.