Mà fatemi hor'hora qua una gallina recare, ch'io vi farò vedere, che grande è stato sin ad hora l'inganno vostro.“
Et incontanente dato cotal ordine, lor fu nella camera una gallina viva portata; et lincentiato ciascheduno, soli nella camera insieme col papagallo serratisi, presala il falso Imperadore colle proprie mani l'affogò, et sopra 'l corpo di quella dette le parole negromantiche col spirito suo in quella passò, quivi il proprio corpo à terra lasciando morto.
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But now, let me bring a hen here and I will show you, that up to now you have been greatly deceived." And this order was carried out immediately and a living hen was brought into the room. And when the others were dismissed, they locked themselves inside the room, alone with the parrot. The false Emperor strangled the hen with his own hands and speaking the magic words over the body, his spirit passed into it while leaving his own body for dead on the floor.
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