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The rooster which occurs near the inn in Bosch’s painting [Philip, 1958, 6: note 14] is a symbol of lust and unchastity and is also connected with the procuring activities of the peddler. The rooster originally signified fertility and was therefore an attribute of the god Mercury. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the cock frequently appears on the caps of fools in representations in which the fool is the entertainer and procurer. Cf., for instance, the fool as the maître de plaisir in the woodcut by Cornelis Teunissen, repr. in Hampe [Anthonisz, 1541]. There are innumerable examples of fools, prostitutes, procures, go-betweens and match-makers with the rooster [Bax, 1949]. (p. 69:note 146)
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- Anthonisz, C. (1541). Het bal, from Het verhaal van Sorgheloos. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. RP-P-BI-104.


