Quote 91
For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an Episcopal curate. (20)
Get ready for some more satire. Swift suggests that poor Irish mothers are evading work for the sole purpose of creating a Catholic army.
Quote 92
Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: […] of quitting our animosities and factions, nor act any longer like the Jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their city was taken. (28)
Swift refers to Roman Emperor Titus's invasion of Jerusalem in this passage. Because religious factions were fighting at the time of invasion, Titus had no troubles capturing the city. Sound familiar?