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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

Wotton, Sir Henry. An English diplomatist, poet, and miscellaneous writer; born at Boughton Malherbe, Kent, March 30, 1568; died at Eton, Dec. 1639. After spending twenty years almost continuously in the diplomatic service he became provost of Eton in 1625. He wrote: ‘Poems,’ which have been many times reprinted, generally with those of Raleigh; ‘Reliquiæ Wottonianæ’ (Wotton’s Remains: 1651), his best-known work, edited with a life by his friend Izaak Walton; ‘Elements of Architecture’; ‘State of Christendom’; etc.