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Cortés told Montezuma that he and his men had a figurative disease of the heart that only gold could cure.
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“temples and to them this this both awed them and inflamed that that greed that they had and Cortez himself admitted as much to Montezuma's own voice he said my men and I suffer from a disease of the heart that only gold can cure so Montezuma sent him feathered headdresses and all the”1:19:30Report a misattribution
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