I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, when he hath only some particular friend, or his own family to dine with him.

One aspect of satire evident in this excerpt is

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Camryn Ford

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24 November, 19:43

I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, when he hath only some particular friend, or his own family to dine with him.

One aspect of satire evident in this excerpt is

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Ariana Proctor · Answer 1

One aspect of satire evident in this excerpt is verbal irony, because the author does not truly believe his own words.

Obviously, the author doesn't really mean what he says here - he doesn't really want to get a fat child and eat him for his excellent nutritive meat. He is trying to let people know how silly it is to think that way by using verbal irony, which is there to show the opposite of what he says.