Exile
In 1772, Bickerstaffe fled to France, suspected of homosexuality. The actor-producer David Garrick was implicated in the scandal by the lampoon Love in the Suds by William Kenrick. The remainder of his life seems to have been passed in penury and misery, and little is known about his death.
Long after Bickerstaffe's disappearance, his colleague Charles Dibdin was frequently accused of plagiarizing his songs.
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“Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say “death”;
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death. Do not say “banishment!””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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dreaming, his head
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