Excerpt from The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum Plena Sunt Omnia; Al Savio Mezza Parola Basta Thomas Decker, Deokar, Dekker, or Bekkar, as the name is difi'erentl y spelt in his different pub lications, flourished in the reign of K. James lst. The exact periods. Of: his birth, . And decease are not ascertained; but he' could not have died young, as his earliest play bears date 1600, and his latest 1637. Mr. Oldys thinks, that he cera tainly was living in 1638, and that he was in the King's-bench prison from 1613 to 1616, or longer. A late writer, who gives some notices respecting him, observes that, he was probably more advanced in years than, mr_. Oldys. Imagined tioma passage in the dedication to his lviatchme in London, 1631, where he says: I have been a; priest in, apollo_'s temple many years, my voice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.