The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

BooK I. Royal Commentaries. camac) whom he h11th fent to vijit m with vengeance and deftrullion. .And if it be fo both 1 and my Vajfals do offer our felvn to death, and to what punifhment foever Jºf' wi!L ¡,/. fliét upon m ; not for fear, or out of any dread we have of your Menaces or Arms, but in comp!iance with the Commands enjoyned m by 11?J Father Hliayaa Capac at the time of hi; death ; which wM, that we fhould ferve and honour a Nation with Beards likf your fe/ver, which werc to ente-!" intothefe parts after his dap, andofwhich he prophefie.d fome years before your Ships coafted about our Countrey, arid whom he declared to be Men of better Law1, o/ more refined Cuftom1, more wife and more valiant than Oflr (elvn. . · wherefore to fu!fi!l the Prophecy and Teftament of my Father, we ftyle you Viracochas; 11nderflanding thereby, thatyou are the Meffenger1 of the Great God Viracocha, who(eWi/l and Pleafare, juft !ndignation, Arms and Pow~, we are unable to rejift; andyet we are af- fured, that he is al! Goof.nefs and Merey : And for that reafon you, whoare hiJ Minifters 11nd Executioner1 of hir Wifl, ought to abftain from fuch Robberiu, Slaughter .and Pio!ence.r; 1u you have committed in Tumpiz and the ar.fjacent Co1mtrin. • 455 In the next place, your lnterpreter acquaintJ me of flve great Perfonages, whom 1 am to ack._nowledge, The fi,rft is God; who is three and one, that i1 four, whomyoli cal/ the Crea- tor ef thi1 Vnive-t"fe; JJJhich perh11ps may be the {ame, whom we cafl Pachacamac andVi- r:icocha. The fecond i-s the Father of 11/L Mankjnd, on whom ali other Men have heaped their Sin1. The thirdyou ca/l [efm Chrift, _who WM the onely Pcrfon excepted, who did not caft hi-s Sin1 on the fi,rft Man, but that he ibed. The fourth y ou na 1!11: u thc Pope. The fifth i-s Charles, whom, in comparifon (17ith otherr, JOH call the mo.ft Powerfult Monarch of the Vniverfe, and the Supreme Lord of al!: But then if Charl~ b e the Prince and Lord of the World, what need WM there for" the Pope to give a newGrant, and another Commi.f!i- on to makf War upon me, and Vfurp my Kingdoms? for confequently the Pope ml!:ft be agrea- ter Prince than he, and the moft powerfull of a~ in the World. BHt 1 cannot but moft ad· . mire at what you [ay, that 1 am obliged to pay Tribute to Charles onely, and not to otherr; the which you alledge without giving me any reafon, and indeed 1 ca~net conc~ive on what fcore J am obliged to pay it ; f or if 1 were bound to pay Tribute and Service to 1.1ny, methink¿ it fhould be to that God, who,,you [ay, crcated all thing1, and to thar firft Man, who wMthe Father of a/l M anbind, and to that [efm Chrij/ who had no Sins to impute unto him ; and, • in fine, if Tribute were to be give~, it fhoulá r11tker be unto the Pope; who hath Power and .Authority to difrofe of my Kingdoms, and my Perfon. And if you fay that 1 owe nothing unto any of thefe, 1 JhqHld i11!agine that 1 owe much~lefs unto Charles, who WM never Lord of thefe Count ries, n or ever faw them, And if the Pope'1Grant andConceffion be obligatory, .to me, it were ju.ft and reafonable to declare it to me, beforeyou threaten me with War, and Fire, and Sword, and De11th ; for 1 am not fo void of underftanding and fmfe, M 11ot to obey the Pope, in cafe you can fhew me reafon, and juftice, and caufe for it, , Moreover, 1 de.Jire to be informed who that good Man {efm Chrift wao, who,)"li~ [ay, ne~ ver laid hi-s Sins on anotheY, but that he dyed. l wou!d glad!y kz1ow, whether he zlyed of"' natural death, or by the hand1 of his Enemies ; and whether he w.u numbred amongft the Gods before hi1 death, or afterwards. . .Andfarthe-t" 1 dejire to be informcd, whether thefe five which you highly honour, are adored byyou for Gods ; for if it be fo, you hold more for God1, than we, who acknowledge no other than the P:tchacamac, who i1 the Supreme, and the Sf!n, who i1 inferiour to hj,m, and thc M oon , who is hi1 Sifter and Wife. In which Joubtfull J2.!!.eflions 1 heartily dejire to be truly refolved bJ fome other rpore able and faithfu!L lnterpreter, that fo 1 may be made moré .ct(fab{t thereby to kziow and obeyyour will and Commands, CH A P: