...either. One of the most venerable of modern puns is Sir Henry Wotton's slur upon an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." So pleased with it was the good knight himself, as to try to give it European currency by translating...

...mentiendum Reipubcausa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." But the word for lie — being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn — was not so expressed...

...says that Sir Henry "could have been content that his Latin could have been thus Englished : — " An ambassador is an honest man sent to LIE abroad for the good of his country." But the word lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) wus not •o expressed in Latin...

...his own Court. His conduct reminds us of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an ambassador — that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. A pun upon the term, foyerAmbassador. so by my Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money themselves,...

...reside. Sir H. Wotton gives the following punning definition of the duties of an ambassador. — " An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." LONG OP YOU. Act II., Sc. 1. " 'T is long of you that spur me with such questions." Through you —...

...Longaville. t> To Jit— to reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning <it fruition of an ambassador — "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." ' The folio reads brcitc. G 2 Stands in attainder of eternal shame : Suggestions* are to others, as...

...his own safety. James I. employeel him in several embassies, but he lost that monarch's conf1dence by writing in a friend's album, as a definition, "...the statutes, took holy orders. He died in 1639.] VfOU meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light...

...is due as much in one respect as the other. He it was who gave the definition of an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." And when his advice was onco asked in a matter of diplomatic tactics, he said, " Ever speak the truth...

...appears by many examples. — [There is here doubtless a play upon the word, as in Sir Henry Wotton's definition: 'An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.' — ED.] 126. I must] STEEVENS: Alluding to the proverb: 'Patience perforce is medicine...

...Architecture. Hanging was the worst use man could be put t0. The Disparity between Buchingham ancl Essex. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.2 1 "sun" in Reliquia Wottoniana, Eds. 165I, 1672, 1685. 2 In a letter to Velserus, 1612,...