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biography
pronunciation:
[kahts]
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| (1577–1660)
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| Writer and statesman, born in Brouwershaven, W Netherlands. He studied literature and law, worked as a lawyer, then settled in Zeeland, where he accumulated wealth by land reclamation. He made diplomatic missions to England, and from 1621 served as a statesman in several positions. His poems and stories were usually romantic and moralistic, and enjoyed great popularity during the 17th-c. Some lines of his poems became common Dutch sayings, such as ‘Haestige spoet / is selden goet’ (‘hasty speed is hardly ever good’). |
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