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On a Printer’s being sent to Newgate, by –—— Swift’s usual Dublin printer in the 1730s, George Faulkner, was arrested in 1736 for having published the satirical New Proposal for the . Improvement of Quadrille by the Bishop of Kilmore, Josiah Hort, which Swift had revised in advance of publication. The arrest was instigated by Richard Bettesworth, the lawyer and politician whom Swift despised, and upon whom Hort had made a satirical reflection (see The Yahoo’s Overthrow). Faulkner was jailed in Newgate Prison in Dublin and forced to apologize for a breach of parliamen- tary privilege (since Bettesworth was a member of parliament); another printer associated with Swift, Edward Waters, who had reprinted Bishop Hort’s satire, was also imprisoned briefly. Copy-text: Works, ed. Faulkner, 1746. * * * BETTER we all were in our Graves Than live in Slavery to Slaves, Worse than the Anarchy at Sea, Where Fishes on each other prey;1 Where ev’ry Trout can make as high Rants O’er his Inferiors as our Tyrants; And swagger while the Coast is clear: But should a lordly Pike appear, Away you see the Varlet scud,2 Or hide his coward Snout in Mud. Thus, if a Gudgeon meet a Roach3 He dare not venture to approach; Yet still has Impudence to rise, And, like Domitian, leap at Flyes.4 1 See Swift’s poem The Bubble (aka Upon the South Sea Project) (1720), ll. 69–72: “As Fishes on each other prey / The great ones swall’wing up the small / So fares it in the Southern Sea / But Whale Directors eat up all.” 2 See the scoundrel flee; also playing upon the obsolete meaning of “varlet” as “sergeant” (which evokes association with Bettesworth, satirized as “Serjeant Kite” in The Yahoo’s Overthrow). 3 Both of these are small fresh-water fish. A “Gudgeon” is often used for bait and invoked as a contemptuous term for a foolish or gullible person. 4 The Roman emperor Domitian, who ruled from 81 to 96 C.E., was often invoked to repre- sent tyranny; in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, he is described as impaling flies upon his stylus. C. Fabricant et al. (eds.), Swift’s Irish Writings © Carole Fabricant and Robert Mahony 2010.

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