.
Therefore am I moved to tears
To see a Theatine who is married;
And who was, because of his sin--
Provincial, Theatine, and cripple.

Archdeacon with no right--Jiron.
A bishop with little learning--Camudio.
A notorious excommunicate--Tenorio.
Right well they deserve the Purgatory
Of Hell, these three friends;
For they are the enemies of God--
Jiron, Camudio, and Tenorio.

Who was hanged from a beam?--An artilleryman.
On what was that action based?--On the slave-girl.
Of what did the homicide deprive him?--His life.
Unjustly lost
It was; but still I lament
That he should lose in one moment--
That artilleryman--his slave-girl and his life.

He who thought to pay from his profits--tributes;
And he who in hanging dogs saw--fetters;
And he who caused the mulatto women to bear--daughters:
All these simpletons
Must come to a halt;
Because the devil will carry off--
Tributes, fetters, and daughters. [9]

For so great malice, there is no--justice;
Nor for so many injuries--words;
Nor for so many follies--cures. [10]
All these misfortunes,
We Christians must suffer;
For powerless we see--
Justice, words, and cures.

What results finally?--Resolution.
And from these evil things?--Punishments.
And from so great discontent?--Torment.
Not in vain do I lament,
Seeing the sincere [11] Church
Become otherwise because of Corcuera--
Suffering, punishments, and torment.

LETTERS FROM GOVERNOR HURTADO DE CORCUERA

_Ecclesiastical_

Most potent Sir:

Although I have related to the tribunal of the holy Inquisition
of Mexico the disorders that have happened in this city this year
which were caused by the fathers of St. Dominic, and helped and
strengthened by the father commissary of the Holy Office, Fray
Francisco de Herrera--who has endeavored to avenge his passions and
those of his religious through the authority of so holy a tribunal,
but overstepping the manner of procedure and prudence that that holy
tribunal has in all its actions--yet I have thought it best to have
recourse to your Highness as to the supreme authority, so that you
with the ruling hand may apply an efficacious remedy to the said
disorders. Therefore, I shall give your Highness an account of them
in this letter, in detail, although