Clipper
A clipper was a very fast sailing ship. Often small, but with a large relative sail area they were used to ply the trade routes between western European countries and their colonies in the east.
The small, fast ships were ideally suited to low-volume, high-profit goods, such as spices, and most commonly, tea.
Although many were built during the middle of the 1800s, only the Cutty Sark has survived.
Notable Clippers:
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My loving servants: now the difference
Like More in melancholy. I conceive that nature
Us mortals, each in valuation
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Hence slaves have their creation; and I think
Under the whip, the burden, and the toil,
As for the prince in all his sweet-gorged maw,
The noon's excess in the night's dangerous surfeits.
Nature entitles to us; that we owe:
Falling from happy life to bondage state,
Of glory that once reared each high-fed back.
Challenged not fortune for your thriftless debter.
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Then grieve not you to fall with him that gave them:
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The rest like you have had fair time to grow
Corruption is fled hence with each man's office;
And netherland of hell, deliver up
Then, living thus untainted, you are well:
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MORE.
Oh, God, what news with them?
MORE.
They are but come to visit their old friend.
LADY MORE.
What shouldst thou fear, fond woman?
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[Kind salutations.]
SURREY.
Welcome, my good lords.
Oh, I know; you live in court, and the court diet
Oh, Sir Thomas,
The interest of your love! We are sent to you
If you'll subscribe unto those articles
For, on mine honor, lord, grave Doctor Fisher
Attached with you, is sent unto the Tower
Hath only sent you prisoner to your house;
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