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Jacob Cats (November 10, 1577, Brouwershaven (Zeeland) - September 12, 1660, the Hague) was a Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (852x1000, 63 KB) Jacob Cats, Grand Pensionary of Holland and West Friesland, and Poet 1639 Oil on canvas, 67. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (852x1000, 63 KB) Jacob Cats, Grand Pensionary of Holland and West Friesland, and Poet 1639 Oil on canvas, 67. ... November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... Events March 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold May 28 - Publication of the Bergen Book, better known as the Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran confessional writings. ... Schouwen-Duiveland is a municipality and an island in the southwestern Netherlands. ... Location of Zeeland in the Netherlands Zeeland is a province of the Netherlands. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A humorist is an author who specializes in short, humorous articles or essays. ... JURIST is an online legal news and research service hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, edited by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and a staff of more than 20 law students. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ...

Having lost his mother at an early age, and being adopted with his three brothers by an uncle, Cats was sent to school at Zierikzee. He then studied law at Leiden and at Orleans, and, returning to Holland, he settled at the Hague, where he began to practise as an advocate. His pleading in defence of a wretched creature accused of witchcraft brought him many clients and some reputation. He had a serious love affair about this time, which was broken off on the very eve of marriage by his catching a tertian fever which defied all attempts at cure for some two years. For medical advice and change of air Cats went to England, where he consulted the highest authorities in vain. He returned to Zeeland to die, but was cured mysteriously by a strolling quack. He married in 1602 a lady of some property, Elisabeth von Valkenburg, and thenceforward lived at Grypskerk in Zeeland, where he devoted himself to farming and poetry. Schouwen-Duiveland is a municipality and an island in the southwestern Netherlands. ... Leiden (in English also, but now rarely, Leyden) is a city and municipality in South Holland, The Netherlands. ... This article is about Orléans, France; for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation). ... The term witchcraft (and witch) is a controversial one with a complicated history. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England â€“ Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... Quackery is the practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power. ... Zuidhorn is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. ...

In 1621, on the expiration of the twelve year truce with Spain, the breaking of the dykes drove him from his farm. He was made pensionary (stipendiary magistrate) of Middelburg; and two years afterwards of Dordrecht. In 1627 Cats came to England on a mission to Charles I, who made him a knight. In 1636 he was made Grand Pensionary of Holland, and in 1648 keeper of the great seal; in 1651 he resigned his offices, but in 1657 he was sent a second time to England on what proved to be an unsuccessful mission to Cromwell. In the seclusion of his villa of Sorgvliet (Fly-from-Care), near the Hague, he lived from this time till his death, occupied in the composition of his autobiography (Eighty-two Years of My Life, first printed at Leiden in 1734) and of his poems. He died on the 12th of September 1660, and was buried by torchlight, and with great ceremony, in the Klooster-Kerk at the Hague. He is still spoken of as Father Cats by his countrymen. A dike (or dyke) is an earthen wall, constructed as a defence or as a boundary. ... This is about the city in the Netherlands. ... This is about the Dutch city of Dordrecht. ... The name Charles I is used to refer to numerous persons in history: Kings: Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland Charles I of France (also known as Charles the Bald) Charles I of Spain (also known as Charles V of the German Empire) Charles I of Romania Charles I... The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ... A pensionary was a name given to the leading functionary and legal adviser of the principal town corporations in the Netherlands because they received a salary, or pension. ... The Great Seal might mean: Great Seal of Canada Great Seal of the Irish Free State Great Seal of the Realm (UK) Great Seal of the United States See also: Seal This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Cromwell is the name of the following places: Cromwell, New Zealand Cromwell, Connecticut, United States of America Cromwell, Indiana, United States of America Cromwell, Iowa, United States of America Cromwell, Minnesota, United States of America Cromwell Township, Minnesota, United States of America Cromwell Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America People...

Cats was contemporary with Hooft and Vondel and other distinguished Dutch writers in the golden age of Dutch literature, but his Orangist and Calvinistic opinions separated him from the liberal school of Amsterdam poets. He was, however, intimate with Constantijn Huygens, whose political opinions were more nearly in agreement with his own. Hardly known outside of Holland, among his own people for nearly two centuries he enjoyed an enormous popularity. His diffuseness and the antiquated character of his matter and diction, have, however, come to be regarded as difficulties in the way of study, and he is more renowned than read. A statue to him was erected at Brouwershaven in 1829. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (843x1272, 200 KB) Summary Page 226 from Jacob Cats, Published in Amsterdam by Willem Iansz Blaeu in 1620. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (843x1272, 200 KB) Summary Page 226 from Jacob Cats, Published in Amsterdam by Willem Iansz Blaeu in 1620. ... Hooft: Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - poet Gerardus t Hooft - physic Jotie THooft - poet This is a disambiguation page â€” a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) was born in the Große Witschgasse in Cologne. ... In an unadorned church, the 17th century congregation stands to hear the sermon. ... Constantijn Huygens (September 4, 1596 - March 28, 1687) was a Dutch poet and composer and the father of Christiaan Huygens. ...

See Jacob Cats, Complete Works (1790-1800, 19 vols.), later editions by van Vloten (Zwolle, 1858-1866; and at Schiedam, 1869-1870): Pigott, Moral Emblems, with Aphorisms, etc., from Jacob Cats (1860); and P. C. Witsen Gejisbek, Het Leven en de Verdienstenwan Jacob Cats (1829). Southey has a very complimentary reference to Cats in his Epistle to Allan Cunningham.

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