_Impertinence_ comes next under Consideration, in which I shall be as brief, as I conveniently can, in regard I have been so long upon the precedeing Head. _Impertinence_ is a humour of busying our selves about things trivial, and of no Moment in themselves, or unseasonably in things of no concern to us, or wherein we are able to do nothing to any Purpose. Here our Adversaries insult over us, as if they had gain’d an intire _Victory_, and the _Field_ were indisputable; but they shall have no cause for _Triumph_, this is no Post of such mighty advantage as they fondly persuade themselves. This _Presumption_ arises from an Erroneous Conceit, that all those things in which they are little concern’d, or consulted, [Sidenote: _Commonly mistaken._] are triffles below their care or notice, which indeed they are not by Nature so well able to manage. Thus, when they hear us talking to, and advising one another about the Order, Distribution and Contrivance of _Houshold Affairs_, about the _Regulation_ of the _Family_, and _Government_ of _Children_ and _Servants_, the provident management of a _Kitchin_, and the decent ordering of a _Table_, the suitable _Matching_, and convenient disposition of _Furniture_ and the like, they presently condemn us for impertinence. Yet they may be pleased to consider, that as the affairs of the World are now divided betwixt us, the _Domestick_ are our share, and out of which we are rarely suffer’d to interpose our Sense. They may be pleased to consider likewise, that as light and inconsiderable as these things seem, they are capable of no Pleasures of Sense higher or more refin’d than those of _Brutes_ without our care of ’em. For were it not for that, their Houses wou’d be meer _Bedlams_, their most luxurious Treats, but a rude confusion of ill Digested, ill mixt Scents and Relishes, and the fine Furniture, they bestow so much cost on, but an expensive heap of glittering _Rubbish_. Thus they are beholding to us for the comfortable Enjoyment of what their labour or good Fortune hath acquir’d or bestow’d, and think meanly of our care only, because they understand not the value of it. But if we shall be thought impertinent for Discourses of this Nature, as I deny not but we sometimes justly may, when they are unseasonable; what censure must those Men bear, who are prepetually talking of _Politicks_, _State Affairs_ and _Grievances_ to us, in which perhaps neither they, nor We are much concern’d, or if we be, are not able to propose, much less to apply any Remedy to ’em? Surely these are impertinent; not to call the _Beau_, or _Poetaster_ on the _Stage_ again, whose whole Lives are one continued scene of Folly and Impertinence; let us make the best of our _News Monger_. [Sidenote: _Character of a Coffee-House Politician._]