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1568-1639. English poet and diplomat under
James I, provost of Eton public school from
1624. He defined an ambassador as `an honest
man sent to lie abroad for the good of his
country'. Reliquiae Wottonianae 1651 includes
the lyric `You meaner beauties of the night'.