I'd wondered why you might not have been able to access the Vondel site in the Netherlands that I gave before. Well, the site is in Frames; perhaps that was the difficulty. The 2 sub-sections of actual interest are:

Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) <--- The real intro and frameless jumpstart
http://www.dds.nl/~ljcoster/vondel/ind.html

HET LEVEN VAN VONDEL. <--- samples of Vondel's poetry??
http://www.dds.nl/~ljcoster/vondel/leven.html


If you are still interested (and have the time, of course; I don't want to burden you), I'd love it if you could roughly translate some of the Dutch verse on the second page. Vondel sounds like he was quite the lyricist, and you'd be spreading his due Flemish fame across the net. Thanks. :-)

Wolfspirit