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"Codicil" to the Dying wars "Testament"
[NIEROP, Adriaen van or Simon van MIDDELGEEST?]. WAER-MOND, Yemand van (pseudonym).Codicille van de Nederlandsche Oorloghe, waer in sy eenighe Vrienden, Wel-Doenders ende Dienaren, in haer principael Testament van date den tweeden Februarij 1609. vergheten zynde, ... den 12. Martij des selven jaers. Noch een Wellecom-Dicht van het Bestandt. Noch andere ghedichten van bestandighe vrede.   "Franc end al" [= Amsterdam?], "Frederijck de Vrije", (1609). Small 4to. Disbound. Poems celebrating the truce with Spain (though attributed to a former opponent of the truce), with the Dutch poems in textura types and Latin marginal notes in roman. (12) pp. A political pamphlet in verse celebrating peace and dated less than a month before the signing of the Twelve Years' Truce between Spain and the Dutch Republic. The main poem takes the form of a "codicil" to War's "last will and testament." It recites the various legacies, both good and bad, that the War has left to people on both sides and even to people and countries not directly involved in the fighting. So Jan Neyen, the monk who negotiated for Spain, receives only a Spanish hat under which he can take cover from the thunder and lightning; the artisans who produced armour and weapons for the Dutch receive all armaments, to make equipment for the farmers to feed the nation (almost literally beating swords into plough-shares); and England receives leftover gunpowder to blow up their Parliament! (four years after Guy Fawkes's Catholic plot). The main poem is followed by others celebrating the peace. The pamphlet is a spin-off from the verse pamphlet Het Testament ofte Wtersten Wille (Knuttel 1581-1583; Alden & Landis 609/86-88), which may have taken the idea from the quite different pamphlet Het Testament vande Oorloghe (The War's Testament), first published in 1607 and included in all three editions of the Nederlandtsche Bye-Korf in 1608. Asher mistakenly lists the present pamphlet as no. 11 in the Bye-Korf series: it was published about six months after the Bye-Korf was banned, but later collectors often inserted it and the associated Testament in place of the earlier Testament, which should have been Asher 26-28/10. The author, place of publication and publisher given on the title-page are all word plays, "Yemand van Waer-Mond" for example suggesting "someone of honest mouth." The STCN attributes the pamphlet with a query to Nierop, who propagandized against peace in one of the Bye-Korf pamphlets (Asher 28/37) but rejoiced in it once it came. Alden & Landis attributes the associated Testament ofte Wtersten Wille to Middelgeest. The poet's four-line verse on the back of the title-page is signed with the motto: "Yet Meer en mocht/Min en docht Niet." A nice view of popular feelings about the Truce, just before it formally took effect. Very good copy.- (With some tears at the fold of the outermost bifolium, only slightly browned).
Asher 26-28/11; Knuttel 1584; Simoni W 34; Tiele 751; OCLC WorldCat (3 copies).
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