Q, I appreciate your posting that information.

But I'm confused now. Here's a quote from the website that Bruce found: "The inspiration of the nursery rhyme 'A man of words and not of deeds' might have originated in the words of the Elizabethan author John Fletcher 1579-1625".

Somehow I didn't notice the word "might" in that sentence.

So, I guess that currently no one is sure who composed "A man of words and not of deeds" and when it was composed. Is that right?