Old Dutch saying:
“Bedelaars scheuren hunne kleêren,
om medelijden te verwekken.”
[Beggars tear their clothes, to arouse pity]
=<1635 Har.1.p.36.

In this line, blindness & bandage are fake too. And children perhaps aren’t his own.
#HaywainBoschPrado museum >1510.
#NetherlandishArt