He pronounces Folly something broadish--like Fol-_lay_, I believe; but it means all the same thing.
Folly is folly, pronounce it as you will." Nelson continued to pace his cabin, working the stump of his arm, and smiling half-bitterly; half in a sort of irony that inclined him to be in a good-humor with himself.
"Do you remember the ship, Cuffe, we had that sharp brush with off Toulon, in old Agamemnon ?" he said, after making a turn or two in silence.

"I mean the dismasted eighty-four that was in tow of the frigate, and which we peppered until their Gallic soup had some taste to it! Now, do you happen to know _her_ real name in good honest English ?" "I do not, my lord.

I remember, they said she was called the Ca Ira; and _I_ always supposed that it was the name of some old Greek or Roman--or, perhaps, of one of their new-fangled republican saints." "They!--D--n 'em, they've _got_ no saints to name, my good fellow, since they cashiered all the old ones! There _is_ something respectable in the names of a _Spanish_ fleet; and one feels that he is flogging gentlemen, at least, while he is at work on them.

No, sir, Ca Ira means neither more nor less than 'That'll Do'; and I fancy, Cuffe, they thought of their own name more than once while the old Greek was hanging on their quarter, smashing their cabin windows for them! A pretty sound it would have been had we got her and put her into our own service--His Majesty's ship 'That'll Do,' 84, Captain Cuffe!" "I certainly should have petitioned my Lords Commissioners to change her name." "You would have done quite right.

A man might as well sail in a man-of-war called the 'Enough.' Then, there was the three-decker that helped her out of the scrape, the Sans-Culottes, as the French call her; I suppose you know what _that_ means ?" "Not I, my lord; to own the truth, I'm no scholar, and am entirely without ambition in that way.