A Spanish story involving sexual jealousy and selfishness appears in Lope de Vega's play "El Perro del Hortelano" (The Gardener's Dog, in 1618). In this case, De Vega's title alludes to the parallel European idiom involving a variant story in which a gardener sets his dog to guard his cabbages (or lettuces). After the gardener's death the dog continues to forbid people access to the beds, giving rise to the simile "He's like the gardener's dog that eats no cabbage and won't let others either" or, for short, "playing the gardener's dog" ("faire le chien du jardinier"). In the Martinique Creole there is also the similar-sounding proverb, "The dog doesn’t like the banana and he doesn’t want the hen to eat it."