Matthew Sheyn, a graduate of

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, was

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from 1572 until his death 13 June 1582.

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* Around

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, a caustic satire against Irish Anglican bishops

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, Matthew Sheyn,

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, and a fourth bishop no longer recognizable, was composed as

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by the

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priest-poet

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Eoghan Ó Dubhthaigh (Owen O'Duffy). In the poem, which begins, ''Léig dod chomortus dúinn'' ("No more of your companions for us"), the bishops are skewered for having renounced veneration of the

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in return for earthly wives, whom Friar O'Duffy then compares in a very unflattering way to the Mother of

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(1962), ''The Irish Comic Tradition'',

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. Pages 138-139.

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