Samuel PepysBy my letter this day from Commissioner Pett I hear that his Stempeese he undertook for the new ship at Woolwich, which we have been so long, to our shame, in looking for, do prove knotty and not fit for service.
Lord! how Sir J. Minnes, like a mad coxcomb, did swear and stamp, swearing that Commissioner Pett hath still the old heart against the King that ever he had, and that this was his envy against his brother that was to build the ship.
At which I was ashamed, but said little; but, upon the whole, I find him still a fool. So, vexed in my mind to see things ordered so unlike gentlemen, or men of reason, I went home and to bed.