The King was against his sentence to death, and Francisco de Lucena was, instead, imprisoned in the Limoeiro prison, in Lisbon.
In 1797 enemies of Bocage belonging to the New Arcadia delated him to Manique, who on the pretext afforded by some anti-religious verses, the Epistola a Marilia, and by his loose life, arrested him when he was about to flee the country and lodged him in the Limoeiro, where he spent his thirty-second birthday.
Broken by infirmities and the hardships of prison life, Garção expired that very day in the Limoeiro, at the age of forty-eight.
Associação Desportiva Limoeiro Futebol Clube, commonly known as Limoeiro, is a Brazilian football club based in Limoeiro do Norte, Ceará state.