1617), also known as Wilhelmus Vener, was an English bilingual English/Dutch poet and rogue of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
This work was written from his experience of imprisonment at London's Wood Street compter.
In 1615 at Theobalds he recited a poem for the king about the differences between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
In 1616 he recited a poem on the Order of the Garter to the court of King James.
He engaged in a literary dispute with John Taylor the Water Poet.