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next Thing I went to see was a Coffee-House, where we intended to trifle away our Time till the Play-House was open: We went thither, and took our Seats at a long Table, with a Design to settle the Affairs of the Nation; for I must confess, that upon my entering the Coffee-House I found myself insensibly turn Politician, and become more concern'd to find out the Designs of One a thousand Miles distant from me, than I was about returning to mine own Country, tho' I am sure that my own Affairs were but in a very bad State when I left it.

I had just lighted my Pipe, and read a Paragraph of a Paper, in quest of Truth, where I was certain that there was an hundred to one against my finding it, when my Thoughts were turned another Way by a Company that seated themselves next to us. But before I inform against them, I will set down the Substance of a Fragment which I met with in Tckbrff's Library. It was a philosophical Account of Mens meddling with Affairs that do not belong to them, when they enter Coffer-Houses. It first prov'd that Coffee was of an hot and dry Nature, and took it for granted that it was much us'd in Houses that