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Henry Wotton

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An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
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Reliquiae Wottonainae (1651). In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, "This merry definition of an ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's, Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album".

 
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