Opening Scene of Irish Misery

From A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin-doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags...
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Establishes the social problem the proposer claims to solve, lending pseudo-humanitarian framing to the satire.

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