 Verkuyl putting him there from December 1602 to March 1607, and Nigel Smith favoring the dates "1601 until after June 1610".He was an envoy to the court of Philip III of Spain in Madrid from 1611 to 1613, where he likely attended performances of "comedias".He was the first to adapt Spanish "comedias" into Dutch; four of these adaptations were staged, then subsequently printed in 1617-1618.