Cor Blimey ganp. I am only here for a little irreverent discourse now and then. You mustn't charge off to the InterTitty like that and come back armed with tiresome and quite unnecessary facts (unless you're putting a swivel eyed loon like b in his place of course - then it is perfectly acceptable).

Anyway, I would never know Swift was a satirist unless my English teacher told me. Bit like not realizing Much Ado About Nothing was a 'comedy'

Was it really safe to ridicule the powerful in 17th century England?