Jacob Cats was not a feline of the four-footed variety, nor did he have anything to do with a certain well-known Andrew Lloyd Webber show that runs "now and forever." Cats was sort of a Rococo F. Lee Bailey; he once successfully defended a woman against a charge of witchcraft -- that didn't happen too often in early 17th century Holland -- and made a handsome living working on behalf of Dutch pirates plundering Spanish traders during the Eighty Years' War. As the Dutch Golden Age wore on, Cats ultimately became the ...
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Jacob Cats was not a feline of the four-footed variety, nor did he have anything to do with a certain well-known Andrew Lloyd Webber show that runs "now and forever." Cats was sort of a Rococo F. Lee Bailey; he once successfully defended a woman against a charge of witchcraft -- that didn't happen too often in early 17th century Holland -- and made a handsome living working on behalf of Dutch pirates plundering Spanish traders during the Eighty Years' War. As the Dutch Golden Age wore on, Cats ultimately became the equivalent of Attorney General within Holland and helped expand the land mass of the Netherlands through his continuing involvement with improving its system of dikes; some Netherlanders still refer to him as "Father Cats." Cats was also a poet of considerable renown, starting relatively late in life; his verse was of a very regular sort, populist in style and based in the Dutch moral code of that time. Cats was not a composer, but a compiler; he often indicated melodies to which his poems...
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