A pamphlet propagandizing against peace with Spain, actually written in the early stages of the Eighty Years' War, but reprinted during the peace negotiations that were to lead to the Twelve Years' Truce in 1609. It argues that Spain hides her true intentions in order to mislead the pious Dutch into accepting treacherous terms for peace. It was issued with all three editions of the Nederlandtsche Bye-Korf before it was banned with most of the Bye-Korf pamphlets on 27 August 1608.
Verheyden (1568-1595), a nobleman and humanist who died fighting as an officer in the Dutch army, first published this pamphlet in 1587. The present edition is the only one dated 1608 and may therefore be the only one printed for issue with the Bye-Korf, but editions dated 1587 were also sometimes issued with the Bye-Korf (though one edition bearing that date was printed after 1600 by Richard Schilders in Middelburg). The oval arabesque on the title-page derives from the same woodcut as that in another Bye-Korf pamphlet (Knuttel 1416).
Only slightly browned, with some very minor water stains and a marginal tear, otherwise a very good copy, nearly untrimmed. Asher 26, 27 or 28/17; Knuttel 1449; Tiele 661; OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); STCN (9 copies); cf. Typ. Batava 1201 & 3759-3762 (other eds.); not in Simoni.