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| | " THE HAY-CART " |
 | | The central panel shows the scene in which the hay-cart prevails, giving name to the triptych, and alluding to psalm 102 of David: Man's days are like those of grass; like a flower of the field he blooms; the wind sweeps over him and he is gone, and his place knows him no more. |
 | | And while the mighty (emperors, popes, kings
depicted to the left of the painting) have no difficulty to reach, even from their mountings, the hay they want, the lower classes of the society make an assault on the cart pulled by strange demons: they will trample underfoot and even kill each other. |
 | | Only two fragments of this lively scene look quieter: the top of the hay where some figures have managed to sit on, and the groups of the foreground where nuns are receiving the hay in bags at their own convent. |
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