Why death did honest John so soon remove
- DMI number:
- 46236
- First Line:
- Why death did honest John so soon remove
- Last Line:
- His falling in did kill him not his going out
- Author:
- William Hicks
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Oxford Drollery [R258]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 15-20
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy on the death of John Seamore formerly a Tailor, but lately Water-caryer, Feweller and Porter to Mr. Brome Whorwood at Halton near Oxford, Drown'd in his Moat on a Christmass eve in a great frost, he was seventy years old.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
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