Poor Buckinger at last is dead and gone

DMI number:

30609

First Line:

Poor Buckinger at last is dead and gone

Last Line:

Since he ad unguem factus homo was

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet

Themes:

Death, Ireland, and Scandal / fame / notoriety[man without arms or legs]

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Last Line:

Arms and supporters to his grave

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Answer To/Answered By

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Content/Publication

Title:

The drapier’s miscellany, in verse and prose [T202226]

Page No(s):

pp.36-40

Poem Title:

An Elegy On the much lamented Death of Matthew Buckinger, The famous Little-Man, (without Arms or Legs).

Attribution:

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Title:

The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol II] [T100454]

Page No(s):

pp.173-176

Poem Title:

A Poem on the much lamented Death of Mr. Matthew Buckinger, who resided in Drogheda about the year, 1716, being a famous little Man, without Arms or Legs.

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