Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset was skewered in satire by the essayist who was Dean of what Dublin cathedral?
Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Mac Flecknoe Mac Flecknoe (full title: "Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S.") is a verse mock-heroic satire written by John Dryden. It is a direct attack on Thomas Shadwell, another prominent poet of the time. It opens with the lines: