Merchant Ship

Famous quotes containing the words merchant and/or ship:

“Bid her paint till day of doom,
To this favour she must come.
Bid the merchant gather wealth,
The usurer exact by stealth,
The proud man beat it from his thought,
Yet to this shape all must be brought.”
—Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

“Have you built your ship of death, O have you?
O build your ship of death, for you will need it.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)