By this, this author satirizes the prejudice of Protestants towards Catholics. He writes that "it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal breeds of the nation as well as our most dangerous enemies" (56). Swift notes that Catholics seem to breed more rapidly than Protestants: Infant's flesh will be in season throughout the year, but more plentifully in March, and a little before and after ... that fish are a prolific diet, there are more children born in Roman catholic countries about nine months after Lent than at any other season; therefore, reckoning a year after Lent, the markets will be more glutted than usual, because the number of popish infants is at least three to one in this kingdom (Swift 54).
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