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"Een Liedeken van IIIJ vrienden, van Leiden," a Dutch hymn composed by Adriaen Cornelisz, commemorating the martyrdom of Willem ([[Willem Matthijsz (d. 1552)|Willem Matthijsz]]), Mariken ([[Mariken Adriaens (d. 1552)|Marijtgen Adriaens]]) [[Dieuwertgen (d. 1552)|Dieuwertgen Jans]], and [[Mariken Jansdochter (d. 1552)|Mariken Jans]]. These four martyrs were executed at [[Leiden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)|Leiden]] in the Dutch province of South Holland. They were not put to death in 1550, as is stated in <em>Groot Offerboek </em>of 1615 and [[Braght, Tieleman Jansz van (1625-1664)|van Braght]], <em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|Martyrs Mirror]], </em>but in the fall of 1552. The song beginning "Eylaes ick mach wel suchten, dat nu buert so groot client" (Alas, I should sigh because now occurs such great misery) is found in the oldest edition of the <em>[[Lietboecxken, tracterende van den Offer des Heeren, Een|Lietboecxken van den Offer des Heeren]] </em>of 1562-63, of the <em>[[Nieu Liedenboeck, Een|Nieu Liedenboeck]] </em>of 1562, and later Dutch hymnbooks. It has been republished by [[Wackernagel, Philipp (1800-1877)|Wackernagel]]. A prose version of this hymn is found in the 17th-century Dutch martyrbook, including the <em>Martyrs Mirror. </em>
= Bibliography =
''Dit Boec wort  genoemt: Het Offer des Heeren, om het inhout van sommighe opgheofferde kinderen Godts . . .'' N.p., 1570: 578-580. Available in full electronic text at: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_off001offe01_01/

Wackernagel, Philipp. <em>Lieder der niederlandischen Reformierten aus der Zeit der Verfolgung im 16. Jahrhundert</em>. Frankfurt: Hender &amp; Zimmer, 1867. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf, 1965: 194.

Wieder, F.C. <em>De Schriftuurlijke Liedekens </em>. The Hague, 1900: 107.

Wolkan, Rudolf. <em>Die Lieder der Wiedertäufer</em>. Berlin, 1903. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. De Graaf, 1965: 63, 70 f.
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