Mordaunt was volatile, dissipated, and generous.

The wits of that time laughed at the way in which he flew about from Hampton Court to the Royal Exchange, and from the Royal Exchange back to Hampton Court.

How he found time for dress, politics, lovemaking and balladmaking was a wonder.

[73] Delamere was gloomy and acrimonious, austere in his private morals, and punctual in his devotions, but greedy of ignoble gain.

The two principal ministers of finance, therefore, became enemies, and agreed only in hating their colleague Godolphin.