Sentences such as "" make it clear that Swift's satire in "A Modest Proposal" is NOT Horatian but Juvenalian. It is true, a Child just dropt from its Dam, may be supported by her Milk, for a Solar year, with little other Nourishment, at most not above the Value of two Shillings . . . How this number shall be reared, and provided for, which, as I have already said, under the present Situation of Affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed . . . I have reckoned upon a Medium, that a Child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar Year, if tolerably nursed encreaseth to 28 pounds. I am assured by our merchants, that a Boy or a Girl before twelve years Old, is no saleable Commodity, and even when they come to this Age, they will not yield above three Pounds, or three Pounds and half a Crown at most . . . 100 points