Hay runs after the horse, Johann Theodor de Bry, 1596 Canvas Print

Hay runs after the horse, Johann Theodor de Bry, 1596 Canvas Print

The proverb "the hay runs after the horse", is here, after the example of Pieter Brueghel, literally portrayed. A basket of hay in which a male sits runs after a horse. In the background, the meaning of the proverb is depicted: here the woman runs after the man, instead of the other way around. It is the man who must take the initiative first in love, not the woman. Emblem No. 20 in Emblemata Saecularia, 1596 and No. 41 in the second edition of 1611.

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