Onde havendo egli un giorno uno papagallo, che poco dianzi morto era, alla campagna ritrovato, et facendosi à credere di dover men travagliata vita passare, ove nel morto corpo di quello co'l suo spirito entrato fusse, dettevi sopra le parole, che cotal virtu haveano, subitamente, lasciata la cerva à terra morta, papagallo divenne, et con molt'altri papagalli accompagnatosi, in uno ucellatore della citta sua principale, il quale le reti per prendere de gl'uccelli tese havea, avenne che s'incontrò.
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One day he found a parrot in the countryside who had died a short time before. And he convinced himself that he would have a less troubled existence if he were to enter the dead body with his spirit. He spoke the magic words over the body and instantly the doe was dead on the ground and he became the parrot.
And he joined a flock of many other parrots who were captured in a net stretched out by a birdman from his capital city.
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And he joined a flock of many other parrots who were captured in a net stretched out by a birdman from his capital city.
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