Merck toch hoe sterck
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"Merck toch hoe sterck" is a Dutch war song and sea shanty written between 1622 and 1625 by Adriaen Valerius. The music is based on an Elizabethan lute song written by Thomas Campion and John Dowland
110 Merck toch hoe sterck, pagina 148 & 149
Adrianus Valerius
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Adrianus Valerius, also known as Adriaen Valerius, was a Dutch poet and composer, known mostly for his poems dealing with peasant and burgher life and those dealing with the Dutch War of Independence,
Merck toch hoe sterck
…Merck toch hoe sterck" ("Notice just how strong") is a Dutch war song and sea shanty written between 1622 and 1625 by Adriaen Valerius (who adapted the "Wilhelmus", the national anthem of the Netherlands). The music is based on an Elizabethan lute song written by Thomas Campion and…
(Valerius' statue in Veere)
Adriaen Valerius, Neder-landtsche gedenck-clanck, published in Haarlem in 1626