Swifts A Modest Proposal
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).
Despite the fact, that British wanted to dispose of the Roman Catholics, they were
afraid of the emigrants. According to Swift's A Modest Proposal there are only two
options for poor children: they "either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their
dear native country to fight for the pretender in Spain" (52). The latter meant to argue
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