greatest Actions must be Buffoon’d in Show, as well as Talk. Shall _Namur_ be taken and our Hero’s of the City not show their Prowess upon so great an Occasion? [Sidenote: _City Militia._] It must never be said, that the _Coffee-houses_ dar’d more than _Moor-Fields_; No, for the honour of _London_, out comes the Foreman of the _Shop_ very Formidable in _Buff_ and _Bandileers_, and away he marches with Feather in Cap, to the general Rendezvous in the _Artillery Ground_. There these terrible Mimicks of _Mars_ are to spend their Fury in _Noise_ and _Smoke_, upon a _Namur_ erected for that purpose on a _Molehill_, and by the help of _Guns_ and _Drums_ out-stink and out-rattle _Smith-field_ in all its Bravery, and wou’d be too hard for the greatest Man in all _France_, if they had him but amongst ’em. Yet this is but Skirmishing, the hot Service is in another Place, when they engage the _Capons_ and _Quart Pots_; never was Onset more Vigorous, For they come to Handy-Blows immediately, and now is the real cutting and slashing, and Tilting without Quarter, Were the Towns in _Flanders_ all wall’d with _Beef_, and the _French_ as good meat as _Capons_, and drest the same way, the King need never beat his Drums for Soldiers; all these Gallant Fellows wou’d come in Voluntarily, the meanest of which wou’d be able to eat a Mareschal, and whom nothing cou’d oppose in conjunction. Nothing is more common, and familiar than this sort of Impertinence; Most Men wou’d have little to do, did they busie themselves about nothing, but what they understood, or were concern’d in. A Monkey is not liker a Man in his Figure, than in his humour. How ready are all Mankind to censure without Authority, and to give advice unaskt, and without reason. They are very much mistaken, that think this forwardness to thrust themselves into other’s affairs, springs from any Principle of Charity or Tenderness for ’em, or the least Regard to the Welfare of their Neighbours. ’Tis only a Vain Conceit that they are wiser, and more able to advise, which puts ’em upon engaging in things they have nothing to do with, [Sidenote: _Officious Impertinences._] and passing their Judgments Magisterially on matters they have no Cognizance of, and generally little Information, or Skill in. They are desirous the World shou’d have as great an Opinion of ’em as they have of themselves, and therefore impertinently interpose their own Authority and Sense, tho’ never so little to the purpose, only to shew how well they cou’d manage, were it their Business; thus they advise without good intention, or kindness, and censure without design, or malice to the Persons counsell’d, or reflected on, These buzzing Insects swarm as thick every where, and are as troublesome as _Muskettoes_ in the _West-Indies_. They are perpetually in a hurry of Business, yet are forc’d to rack their Inventions to employ their Leisure. They are very busie for every Body, and serve no Body. They are always in hast, and think themselves