Crossword-Solution: DEKKER 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

THOMAS DEKKER _Circa_ 1570–1641 LULLABY GOLDEN slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

Thomas Dekker [1570?-1641?] "SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP" Sleep, baby, sleep! what ails my dear, What ails my darling thus to cry? Be still, my child, and lend thine ear, To hear me sing thy lullaby.

Heywood.’ While Webster, then, one of the best poets of the time, sees nothing in Shakspeare beyond the same ‘happy and copious industry’ which he sees in Dekker and Heywood,—while Cartwright, perhaps the only young poet of real genius in Charles the First’s reign, places Fletcher’s name ‘’Twixt Jonson’s grave and Shakspeare’s lighter sound,’ and tells him that ‘Shakspeare to thee was dull, whose best wit lies I’ th’ ladies’ questions, and the fool’s replies.

Every pains has been taken to prove that the indecent scenes in the play were not written by Massinger, but by Dekker; on what grounds we know not.

From allusions in Dekker's play, "Satiromastix," it appears that Jonson, like Shakespeare, began life as an actor, and that he "ambled in a leather pitch by a play-wagon" taking at one time the part of Hieronimo in Kyd's famous play, "The Spanish Tragedy." By the beginning of 1598, Jonson, though still in needy circumstances, had begun to receive recognition.