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The line may be a reference to the fact that after disappointing sales of his The Envoy album, Asylum Records dropped Zevon, but never told him about what they had done.
He became a diplomat in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1837, and was sent to Rome, Berne, Vienna and London, before he was appointed as the Envoy to Rome in 1854, succeeding Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen.
King Christian II hired him often on diplomatic missions and in 1503 he was the envoy to the peace meeting in Lübeck, where he exceeded his instructions by promising compensation to Lübeck for mobilizing ships during the war.
He was witness of the entrance to Ragusa of the envoy of Napoleon, general Lauriston, in 1806, of the formal restoration of the old Republic from English part in 1813, of the occupation Austrian in 1814.
The envoy representing Great Britain on that occasion was the poet-diplomat Matthew Prior.