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Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639), became agent and secretary to the earl of Essex, 1595, and was employed by him in collecting foreign intelligence. He was employed on various other diplomatic missions from 1604 to 1624. A collection of his poetical and other writings appeared under the title Reliquiae Wottonianae, containing his famous ‘Character of a Happy Life’ and ‘On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia’ (‘You meaner beauties of the night’) in 1651. His Life was written by his friend Izaak Walton (1651).

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